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459:, had his own ambitions for the throne. Lord Hastings was unwilling to support the deposition of Edward V and, as a consequence, Richard summarily executed him that June, ahead of his own coronation. Ashby de la Zouch Castle, only partially completed, and Lord Hastings' other estates were then restored to his widow,
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broke out at the end of the year, forcing the besiegers to retreat to
Leicester, while the garrison temporarily abandoned the castle buildings and occupied the neighbouring park. Once the epidemic passed, Parliament began to raid the town and Henry worked through Ferdinando to agree the surrender of
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at the far end of the hall. The building was raised in height, given new windows and reroofed in the second half of the 17th century. The Great
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to a regular design, but only half of these towers were completed by the time of his death. The outer court that lay to the north of the surviving complex has been lost; having been converted into first Ashby Place, and then Ashby Manor, it is now occupied by the Manor House
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works, and it originally featured a circular brick tower in the middle of it. The site would originally have had a brick wall running all the way around it, of which only the south-east edge survives. Two brick towers survive at the southern corners, one resembling a clover-leaf, the other with an
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The Great Tower was a large structure of grey sandstone, 75 feet (23 m) tall, formed of a four-storey tower, 30 by 25 feet (9.1 by 7.6 m) internally, linked to a smaller seven-storey tower or turret, 10 by 9 feet (3.0 by 2.7 m) across. The ground floor contained the basement and the
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on a dais at the north end. One corner of the chapel remains in use as a burial site by the modern
Hastings family. An inner, or chapel, court would have been formed by a range of buildings, since lost, stretching between the chapel and the Great Tower. The historian Anthony Emery notes that the
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Hastings probably intended his castle to ultimately have four large towers, enclosing the
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of the site in 1900, and extensive restoration work took place the following years. The Rawdon family were given a government grant for further repairs in 1912 and they began to start charging visitors for entry. The family found themselves unable to afford to maintain the castle, and by the early
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The original 60 acres (24 ha) park probably lay just to the south of the castle, incorporating the current gardens; it was probably expanded to around 340 acres (140 ha) by
William Hastings, and was later named the "Little Park". The original boundaries of the other two parks associated
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in 1634. The gardens were redeveloped, probably to provide a suitable venue for these royal visits. By now, however, several generations of excessive expenditure meant that the family estates had been much diminished, and the family was having trouble maintaining their lavish lifestyle and former
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Map of the castle: A β Kitchen Tower; B β buttery and pantry; C β Great Hall; D β Great
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at Ashby de la Zouch Castle; the novel was immensely popular and made the location famous. Edward
Mammatt, Francis Rawdon's agent, repaired the castle ruins and opened them to visitors, whom Rawdon hoped to attract to the
820:. The castle's Great Hall was adapted from the medieval original, and would originally have been subdivided by a line of arches. It was heated by a central heath and the lord and his guests would have eaten on a raised
267:, opened the ruins to visitors. Restoration work was carried out over the course of the next century, but by 1932 the Rawdon family could no longer afford to maintain the castle. It passed into the guardianship of the
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Henry returned to the castle from
Leicester in September, where another 600 Royalist soldiers soon joined him and its 60-man garrison, carrying out raids on Parliamentary convoys and the garrison at Coleorton.
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575:, however, became a key Royalist commander in the Midlands. The castle was strategically well-placed, linking the Royalist territories in the north and the west of England, and giving easy access to the
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during the wars, much of them confiscated from his enemies. Amongst these was Ashby de la Zouch, which was given to William in 1462. His father, Sir Leonard, had maintained the family seat at nearby
587:. Buildings in the town of Ashby de la Zouch were pulled down to provide materiel to refortify the castle and town, tunnels were dug and an "Irish fort" constructed to help protect the castle.
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Newsome, Sarah; Canti, Matt; Leary, Jim; Martin, Louise; Pattison, Paul (2008). "Ashby de la Zouch Castle, Leicestershire: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Castle Garden".
246:. Parts of the remaining castle were turned into a new house and continued to be used by members of the Hastings family for many years, although they moved their main residence to
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inherited the castle in 1560, where he maintained a household of 77 servants. Henry Hastings used it to imprison
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2346:. Farnworth, UK: Chris Moxon.
2268:Creighton, Oliver H. (2013) .
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2279:978-1-84383-825-8
1771:on 7 January 2017
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451:, but his uncle,
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1496:Bennett 1980
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