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Chillingham Castle: ‘Curiosity and beauty’ at a spectacular castle that survived ruin by the skin of its teeth

A castle saved from the brink of ruin is now a memorable home. John Goodall reports from Chillingham Castle, Northumberland
The home of Sir Humphry Wakefield Bt and the Hon Lady Wakefield.

The coastal strip of Northumbria between Morpeth and Berwick-upon-Tweed enjoys a concentration and splendour of castles without European parallel. In the late Middle Ages, this was the so-called Middle March, a borderland between England and Scotland. Following the Union of the…

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