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Brancepeth Castle is a castle in the village of Brancepeth in County Durham, England, some 5 miles south-west of the city of Durham (). It is a Grade I listed building. ==History== A succession of buildings has been on the site. The first was a Norman castle built by the Bulmers, which was rebuilt by the Nevilles in the late 14th century.〔 For many years the castle was owned by the Neville family until in 1569 it was confiscated by the Crown following the family's involvement in the Rising of the North.〔( North East England History; Brancepeth )〕 There have been a number of other owners since that time.〔 In the early 17th century the estate was granted by the Crown to Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, from whom it subsequently confiscated the castle back due to his involvement in a poisoning scandal.〔 In 1636, three men who had bought the castle from the King's Commissioners in 1633 sold it to Ralph Cole of Newcastle.〔 His grandson, Sir Ralph Cole MP, sold the property on 9 April 1701〔George Edward Cokayne, ''The Complete Baronetage'', volume II (1902) (page 82 ).〕 to Sir Henry Belaysyse,〔〔( Structures of the North East )〕 whose daughter was involved with Bobby Shafto and who was said to have inspired the famous song.〔("Castle of Shafto's lovelorn follower" ), thenorthernecho.co.uk, 19 December 2003. Accessed 2 November 2011〕 In 1796 the castle was acquired by the Russells. The present building is largely a 19th-century restoration carried out in the 1820s by John Matthew Russell and improved in the mid-19th century by architect Anthony Salvin〔 for William Russell, (High Sheriff of Durham in 1841). During the First World War the castle was used as a hospital by convalescents from Newcastle General Hospital.〔 In 1939 it became the regimental headquarters for the Durham Light Infantry, who erected a military camp of over 100 huts to the south of the village during the Second World War.〔 The Durham Light Infantry left the Castle in 1962.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Durham Light Infantry Records )〕 The castle is now privately owned by the Dobson family. Margaret Dobson, wife of publisher Dennis Dobson, bought the castle in 1978 to store the company's stock of books when the lease on its Notting Hill premises expired. Her husband died that year before the move north, but the family moved nevertheless and Margaret Dobson did much to restore the fabric and interior of the building, including the lead roof, which had been stripped by an earlier tenant. She refurbished many of the main function rooms for use as a venue for auctions and twice-yearly craft fairs, Shakespearean plays were staged in the main courtyard, and rooms were rented to post-graduate students at Durham University and other tenants.〔 Margaret Dobson died aged 86 on 19 October 2014, leaving four sons and three daughters.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brancepeth Castle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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