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Downton Castle

Downton Castle in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit
1.5 h–3 h

About

Downton Castle is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Downton Castle is a grade I listed 18th-century country house in the parish of Downton on the Rock in Herefordshire, England, situated about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Ludlow, Shropshire.

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Background

History

The estate of Downton was acquired by Richard Knight (1659–1749) a wealthy ironmaster from Madeley, Shropshire, and proprietor of the Bringewood Ironworks. It passed to his grandson the art connoisseur and MP Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824), who rebuilt the house in the Gothic Revival style. Construction started in 1772/3 and was largely completed by 1778. In 1824 the estate was inherited by the horticulturalist Charlotte Knight (c.1801-1843), niece of Payne Knight, the daughter and heiress of his brother, the botanist Thomas Andrew Knight. She was the wife of Sir William Edward Rouse-Boughton, 2nd and 10th Baronet (1788-1856), of Downton Hall, Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, (about to the NE of…

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Coordinates
52.3678, -2.8164

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Where is Downton Castle?
Downton Castle is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.3678°, -2.8164°.