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Bladon Castle

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A glimpse of Bladon Castle taken from a field gate on Newtown Road and shows the crest of Bladon Hill where an end turret and connecting parapet wall can be seen
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It was subsequently partly converted into a house. The building lies within the grounds of Bladon House School, and is now in a semi-ruinous state.
127: 72:. Designed to give the appearance of a large castle with battlements, the structure was in reality little more than a single long wall. 171: 166: 18: 106: 69: 34: 65: 92: 61: 46: 160: 54: 38: 50: 42: 142: 129: 37:, located some 600 yards (550 m) southwest of the village of 30: 17: 68:
for Abraham Hoskins of Burton-on-Trent, grandfather of
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folly
country house
Newton Solney
Derbyshire
Burton-on-Trent
River Trent
Staffordshire
Neo-Gothic style
Jeffrey Wyattville
George Gordon Hoskins
"Burton on Trent Local History » Bladon Castle"
"Bladon Castle"
52°49′21″N 1°36′03″W / 52.8226°N 1.6009°W / 52.8226; -1.6009
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Castles in Derbyshire
Folly castles in England

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