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Brancepeth Caste, four miles southwest of Durham, was the original seat of the powerful Neville family.
It is first mentioned during the Magna Carta war of 1216.
In outline, the castle may date back to this period but nothing now standing is that old.
The castle is similar architecturally to some of [...]

At the heart of this great mansion is one of England’s finest medieval manor houses.
Sir John de Pulteney, four times Lord Mayor of London, built it after he purchased the manor about 1338.
His house conforms to the usual domestic layout of the later Middle Ages, the hall being flanked on one [...]