Odell Castle

The new Odell Castle from 1962

Odell Castle was a medieval castle in the village of Odell in the English county of Bedfordshire . In the 17th century, their remains were integrated into a new mansion , which burned down in 1931. The burned down house was not replaced by a new mansion until 1962.

history

The site of the later Odell Castle originally belonged Levenot , a Thane of King Edward the Confessor . At that time the country and the village were called Wahull . After the Norman conquest of England (around 1068), William the Conqueror gave land, manorial power and title to Walter de Flandrensis . De Flandrensis received the title of Baron de Wahull and therefore went down in history as Walter de Wahul . De Wahul had a moth with a stone donjon built in the country during the 11th century . His family lived there for 400 years.

In 1542 the title became obsolete because the family had no male descendants. The castle and lands came into the possession of 17-year-old Agnes Woodhall , a descendant of the De Wahuls. After her death in 1575, they fell to their son, Richard Chetwood , who sold them to William Alston in 1633 . Whose family was later named Baronets Alston of Odell . When Chetwood sold the castle to Alston, it was already in ruins.

So Alston had a new residence built. The remains of the old donjon were integrated into this manor house; the oval mound of the old castle was supported by a wall. His descendants had changes made to the manor house in the 18th century. It stayed that way until it burned down on February 24, 1931.

In 1962 a new mansion was built on the same site. Today it belongs to Baron Luke .

today

The old building blocks of the fire house were used to build the new manor house, but otherwise hardly anything of the old castle has survived. Only vegetation marks and earthworks can still be seen.

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52.2109 -0.5876Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 39.2 " N , 0 ° 35 ′ 15.4" W.