It’s right on our doorstep, but it’s one place we hadn’t really been to explore! After all the rain we’d had over the last couple of weeks, we had to get out the house at the first sight of sunshine. Callum loved it … run around the place.
It’s an old ruined Castle on the outskirts of Newbury .. and dates back to 1386AD. It was besieged for most of the war, but the castle succeeded in guarding the major routes from London to the West Country and Oxford to Southampton, and during the Second Battle of Newbury, the castle was able to hold off the Parliamentary attackers.
All that you can see now is the Gatehouse, but it is still quite impressive.
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