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Langley Castle
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Langley Castle is situated in the village of Langley in the valley of the South Tyne some 3 miles south of Haydon Bridge, Northumberland (grid reference NY835624).
It was built in the middle of the 14th century by Sir Thomas de Lucy as a great H-shaped tower of four storeys. Before this the site was the seat of the Barons of Tynedale in the 12th century, from whom descend the Tyndall family. It was attacked and severely damaged in 1405 by the forces of Henry IV in the campaign against the Percys and Archbishop Scrope. It remained as a ruin until it was bought and restored by a local historian, Cadwallader Bates, in the late 19th century. He died in 1902 and his wife Josephine continued the restoration. After she died in 1932 the building remained empty until it was used as a barracks in the Second World War following which it was used as a girls' school.
It has since been converted into a luxury hotel set in a woodland estate of ten acres. One of the more remarkable features of the building is the south west tower which is occupied by no less than 12 garderobes, four to each floor.
- Langley Castle
- Langley Castle Hotel
- Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980, p. 251. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
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