Ford Castle
Ford Castle is a castle on a ford of the river Till the village of Ford in the English county of Northumberland . English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
history
A building on this site was erected in 1278. Their owner, Sir William Heron , received a royal permit to fortify his house in 1338 (English: "License to Crenellate"). In 1385 the castle was captured by the Scots and demolished. But at the beginning of the 16th century it was rebuilt and fortified. On the eve of the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513, it was conquered by the Scottish King James IV . From the Heron family it fell by marriage to the Carr family in 1549 and, also by marriage, to Sir Francis Blake of Cogges in Oxfordshire in the 1660s .
Blake had a large Tudor mansion built inside the castle in 1694 . After Blake's death in 1717, the estate of Ford Castle fell to the husband of his daughter Mary and then in 1723 to her son Francis Blake Delaval (1692-1752). 1761 was John Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval , (1728 to 1808) the Knight's Hall with the help of architect George Raffield in Gothic style remodel.
After Baron Delaval's death, the property fell to his granddaughter Susannah , who was married to the Marquess of Waterford . In 1862 Louisa , the widow of Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford , had the great hall restored and completely rebuilt.
In 1907 the coal mining magnate James Joicey, 1st Baron Joicey , bought the castle, which has remained in his family to this day. In 1956 the family leased it to Northumberland County Council as a youth hostel.
Sources and web links
- Commons : Ford Castle - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Ford Castle . Northumberland County Council.
- Ford Castle . NorthOfTheTyne.co.uk.
- Ford Castle . CastleUK.net.
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
Coordinates: 55 ° 37 '51.6 " N , 2 ° 5' 27.6" W.