Donington Castle
Donington Castle is an Outbound castle in the village of Castle Donington north of East Midlands Airport in the English county of Leicestershire .
The castle was built by the De Lacy family in the early 12th century . It was attacked in the time of the Magna Carta (around 1215). In 1311 it fell to Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster , the cousin of King Edward II , and later came into the possession of the crown.
Any remains of the ruin were integrated into the construction of Donington House .
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- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
Coordinates: 52 ° 50 '38.6 " N , 1 ° 20' 10.7" W.