Ashby de la Zouch Castle (ii)
Posted in Architecture, Trips at 20:30 on 6 December 2020
Castle from its grounds:-
Main tower block:-
Apparently this is William Lord Hastings’s tower:-
We climbed it. All 23 metres of it via 96 fairly steep steps. Knackering. This is a video of the panorama from the top. (All through our visit those church bells were ringing. It was a Saturday – the bell-ringers must have been practicing):-
Formal Gardens information board. There was no way to avoid my shadow on it!:-
This tower was in one corner of the grounds:-
In its heyday the castle was a centre for “noble” sports:-
This nearby field is said to be the jousting ground where Walter Scott set his tournament in Ivanhoe:-
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