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Chastleton House - Rear
Chastleton is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Cotswolds, Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire, England, about northeast of Stow-on-the-Wold. Chastleton is in the extreme northwest of Oxfordshire, on the boundaries with both Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 153. Archaeology Chastleton Barrow or Burrow is an British Iron Age, Iron Age Hillforts in Britain, hill fort southeast of the village. It is fortified with a single bank built of oolite and earth that encloses an area of about . Part of the fort was excavated in about 1881 and sections of the bank and areas near it were excavated in 1928–29. Hearths were found, along with Iron Age pottery and other artefacts that are now held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. These artefacts were used to date the fort as Early Iron Age, which in Britain is about 800 to 400 BC. The fort is now marked by a ring of mature trees. In the eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chastleton House
Chastleton House () is a Jacobean country house at Chastleton, Oxfordshire, England, close to Moreton-in-Marsh (). It has been owned by the National Trust since 1991 and is a Grade I listed building. History Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612, possibly by Robert Smythson, for Walter Jones, who had made his fortune from the law,"A Short Guide to Chastleton House", by Oliver Garnett, for the National Trust, 1997. although his family were originally Welsh wool merchants. The estate was bought in 1602 from Robert Catesby, although his residence was demolished to make way for the new house and no traces of the original building on this spot remain. The house is built of Cotswold stone, around a small courtyard, called the Dairy Court. Chastleton House is famous for an episode from the English Civil War in which a loyal wife duped (and drugged) Roundhead soldiers to save her husband. Sarah Jewell, granddaughter of the art critic Alan Clutton-Brock and his first wif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
