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| Remains of | Ogle Castle | Mr. Thompson | 29 Chains East of | A Ancient building (Probably first erected | ||
| Ogle Castle | Ogle Castle | Mr. Wilson | Flatts farm | in the 15th year of Edward III) occupying | ||
| Ogle Castle | Mr. Robson | an elevated situation it was at one period | ||||
| Ogle Castle | Whites Directory | the Baronial residence of the Barons | ||||
| Ogle Castles | Hutchinson’s History of Northumberland – 1776 – | of Ogle – but it is now (and has been | ||||
| V.2, page 320 | for the last two centuries) used as a | |||||
| "Seat of the Family of the Ogles before the Conquest | farm house offices &c the walls | |||||
| "There are very little remains of the Old Castle | are in some places from 3 to 6 feet thick | |||||
| – part of a circular tower adjoins to the east of the | it has been strongly fortified by | |||||
| present Farm House, which stands on the side | a double moat – Hodgson says | |||||
| of the Castle, the windows are very small &c" | "that not a vestige of the old castle | |||||
| remained A.D. 1827" but it is not | ||||||
| likely that an ordinary farm house | ||||||
| would have been built with walls | ||||||
| so substantial it is more probable | ||||||
| that the present Building occup |
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| the same site as the former – | ||||||
| The alterations made would only | ||||||
| be with a view of adopting it to | ||||||
| its present use, these last remarks | ||||||
| will only apply to the western portion of the | ||||||
| building, as all the outhouses & the eastern | ||||||
| portion of the dwelling house are evidently | ||||||
| modern, the moats &c referred to are shown | ||||||
| as well as can be |
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| connected as all trace has disappeared | ||||||
| & none of the villagers knows anything about | ||||||
| the matter. | ||||||
| Thomas Grehan c.a. | ||||||
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