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Topic: A castle and a Green Man
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castleuk
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posted 08-08-2002 11:21 AM
Hi everyone
Once again i've been asked a question or maybe a puzzle.
Can you please assist in identifying which castle may have a 'maze'and an association with a 'Green Man. (possibly a grotto featuring a 'Green Man') Which is about 90 miles from Cambridge.
Can anybody help?
Thanks Chris------------------
The castle location website
www.castleuk.net
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AJR
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posted 08-08-2002 11:46 AM
Chris,Where do you get these from ?
90 miles from Cambridge - north, south east or west ? That takes us to about Hull, northwards, Birmingham, westwards, beyond the coast both southwards and eastwards.
I'll look, but I may be gone some time. |
AJR
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posted 08-08-2002 11:50 AM
Get a load of this, Chris. http://www.lincsheritage.org/lincs/misc/green-man-plaque.html
Seem your Green Man comes from Lincolnshire. Maybe you can do the rest. |
AJR
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posted 08-08-2002 11:55 AM
or even here, at Kelburn Castle
http://www.kelburncountrycentre.com/subpages/secretattratctions.html This one has a maze too, but is more than 90 miles from Cambridge. |
duncan
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posted 08-08-2002 12:04 PM
green man? All over the UK are possibilitys, and I'm sure you don't want to hear that near Cambridge in the US is a hint of one, I say hint becouse I've never been there to say one way or the other. |
castleuk
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posted 08-08-2002 02:17 PM
I'm sorry everyone but i'm not to blame because i say that i run a castle location website people think i can locate anything and everything and who else can i turn to but your good self's but this must be a good one as you are all quick off the mark.
I remember now that the green man is a mystical being or creature of the woods like the bigfoot, only a lot older and Cambridge in the US and Kelburn Castle could be good, you never know.
By the way i always tell the people i reply to about this cornucopia of information and i have a link from my site but the easy way is to ask me.
Castles with a maze maybe? Coughton Court in Warwickshire is one and Hever Castle is another but thats as silly as the question!
Thanks Chris |
duncan
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posted 08-08-2002 08:06 PM
I didn't think the question silly Chris, just that it needed to be narrowed down a wee bit as some people here in the states think a electrical generating power station is a castle due to its architecture style.
I believe the folks who migrated from the UK may have brought or made the Green Man i mentioned but I have never heard of a maze around that area either so I'm ruling it out of the equation from lack of evivdence.
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Peter
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posted 08-10-2002 05:10 AM
As everyone has already stated, the myth of the Green Man is spread far and wide.
I do have on my book-shelf an item from 1899 entitled simple 'Windsor Castle'.
This a historical romance set at Windsor Castle. This concerns The Green Man in the woods around the castle.
ie. The woods with its various pathways being the maze.
No, I'm not into this type of book. But the illo's in it of the Castle are excellent. With plenty of plans through the ages.
The facts and pictures depicted in the book are historical correct.
Just another snippet, that's all. |
Marko
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posted 08-10-2002 06:52 AM
Chris,I've got no news about your Green Man but am experiencing the same as you are. As a result of running a castle website I recieve about 10 mails p/m from all over the world with questions concerning castles (and not only Dutch ones). Even from companies who need info for advertising campaigns! It's always fun to try and help them and I always also redirect them here but you're right, they indeed find it easier to mail me. Well it keeps you occupied ;-) |
DEN
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posted 08-10-2002 02:55 PM
How about Leeds Castle in Kent. It is roughly 90 miles drive from Cambridge, it has a maze, a grotto and, I believe, a statue of a green man. |
castleuk
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posted 08-10-2002 03:24 PM
Thanks to everybody
Once more the cornucopia of information has worked, that got to be the one Den.
Chris------------------
The castle location website
www.castleuk.net
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