Ashby de la Zouch Castle (ii)

Castle from its grounds:-

Ashby Castle, Leicestershire

Main tower block:-

Ashby Castle, Leicestershire,

Apparently this is William Lord Hastings’s tower:-

Ashby de la Zouch Castle Information Board

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):-

Panorama From Tower Ashby de la Zouch

Formal Gardens information board. There was no way to avoid my shadow on it!:-

Shaded Information Board, Ashby de la Zouch Castle

This tower was in one corner of the grounds:-

Corner Tower, Ashby de la Zouch Castle

In its heyday the castle was a centre for “noble” sports:-

Ashby de la Zouch Castle, Information Board

This nearby field is said to be the jousting ground where Walter Scott set his tournament in Ivanhoe:-

Ashby Castle Jousting Grounds (ivanhoe)

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