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Hadleigh Castle was first built by Hubert de Burgh, the 1st Earl of Kent, who was a key supporter of King John. [4] De Burgh was given the honour of Rayleigh by John in 1215 as a reward for his services, but chose not to develop the existing caput of Rayleigh Castle, instead building a new fortification south of the town of Hadleigh. [4]
Hadleigh is known for its castle, and the country park to the south of the town centre. This gives its name to the local government district of Castle Point, with its extensive views overlooking the Thames Estuary. Most of the facing stones were stripped from the castle in the 16th century – the only bits still visible today being high inside ...
Hadleigh Bus Depot, one of the depots used by First Essex; Hadleigh Castle, a castle near Hadleigh, Essex; Hadleigh, Suffolk, a town in Suffolk Hadleigh Railway, a seven and a half mile long single-track railway branch-line from Bentley to Hadleigh, Suffolk (now closed) Hadleigh High School, a high school in Hadleigh, Suffolk
Hadleigh Castle is an oil painting by the English painter John Constable, created in 1829. John Constable visited Hadleigh Castle in 1814 and made a drawing of the castle. This he developed into a full-sized oil sketch in preparation for a finished painting, executed in 1829 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year.
Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist and physician who lived in Hadleigh from 1792 til his death. Hugh James Rose (1795–1838), president of the Oxford Union in 1817, rector of Hadleigh, hosted the 'Hadleigh Conference' a landmark in the early history of the Tractarian Movement, Principal of King's College, London.
Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (English: / d ə ˈ b ɜːr / də-BUR, French:; c. 1170 – before 5 May 1243) was an English nobleman who served as Chief Justiciar of England (1215–1232) and Justiciar of Ireland (1232) during the reigns of King John and his son and successor King Henry III and, as Regent of England (1219–1227) during Henry's minority, was one of the most influential and ...
The civil functions were sometimes exercised by subdivisions of the parish rather than the parish as a whole, including at Hadleigh Hamlet, which had its own overseers of the poor. [2] In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Hadleigh Hamlet became a civil parish. [3]
The park was formerly called Hadleigh Castle Country Park. The park was conceived in the 1930s but not created until the 1970s. [ 2 ] Hadleigh Castle is adjacent but separate and managed by English Heritage .