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| Langley Castle | Langley Castle (Remains of) | Greenwood & Co.s County Map | 10 chains South | An ancient Castle built in the | ||
| (Remains of) | Langley Castle (Remains of) | Mackenzie’s Hist of Co | east of | reign of Henry 1st and after | ||
| Langley Castle (Remains of) | List of Co Voters | Castle Farm. | being the propertry of arious famil |
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| estates of the Earl of Derwentwater | ||||||
| (who lost both his head and estates | ||||||
| after the rebelion of 1715) the | ||||||
| Crown transferred it to the Greenwich | ||||||
| Hospital whose property it now is: | ||||||
| its Architecture is "Early English" and | ||||||
| the walls are in pretty good preservation | ||||||
| a small portion being still covered | ||||||
| and forming the residence of the | ||||||
| Woodman for the Estate. the ancient | ||||||
| part of the Castle is shewn on the trace | ||||||
| deeply colored. The lighter coloring | ||||||
| being only a recently erected Cow- | ||||||
| -house for the Convenience of the Wood- | ||||||
| man, in Mackenzies Hist Vol II P266 | ||||||
| it is stated that "it has been defended | ||||||
| to the west by a deep fosse" no remains | ||||||
| of this feature at present exists. | ||||||
| John Stewart Lance Corporal Royal Engineers |
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