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Topic: Does anyone know...
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petalforce
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posted 06-01-2000 11:13 PM
 
...what the name of (and where is) the castle in the bottom left corner of the Castle Greetings postcards page http://www.castlesontheweb.com/greetings/index.html
I love it and gotta know more about it. If you can help I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks![This message has been edited by petalforce (edited 06-01-2000).] [This message has been edited by petalforce (edited 06-01-2000).] |
Levan
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posted 06-02-2000 02:26 AM
Dinton Castle, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire UKLevan |
petalforce
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posted 06-02-2000 07:14 PM
Thanks Levan! |
Levan
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posted 06-03-2000 01:08 PM
Your welcome.
Levan |
petalforce
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posted 06-04-2000 12:40 AM
Do you also know where I might find some more info on it? I have been searching and can't seem to find a thing. |
Levan
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posted 06-05-2000 11:53 AM
I don't really know a lot about English castles (if it was in Scotland I might stand a chance - perhaps this is Philip's domain?).Anyway, for what it's worth, here's a few details that might hilp you track down more information (or not, as the case might be). In the Domesday Book, Dinton was recorded as
'Danitone' in the 14th Century hundred of 'Stone' (later Aylesbury). Information about Dinton:
http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Dinton/Index.html A map showing Dinton Castle's exact location:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=476705&Y=211177&arrow=Y&zoom=3
In Buckinghamshire County Council Picture archive I found the following links (BTW Dinton Castle is described as a folly):
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/cgi-bin/idc/photodb_detail.idc?Counter=8811
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/cgi-bin/idc/photodb_location.idc
Levan
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Levan
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posted 06-06-2000 12:14 AM
Last night I contacted Kevin Quick of the Bucks Genealogical Society (BGS)
whom have a website that includes photographs of Buckinghamshire churches and villages. He has very kindly responded by quickly adding a photograph of Dinton Castle:
http://met.open.ac.uk/group/kaq/village.htm Kevin has also provided the following information: "I don't know how much you know of the history of the building, but
briefly, it is the ruin of a folly built by Sir John Vanhatten in 1769,
to provide a setting to house his collection of fossils. In fact he
included large ammonites in the construction of the walls, and some of
these can be seen in the photo eg over the central window arch." Levan |
Philip Davis
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posted 06-06-2000 03:10 AM
I could find no reference to it and suspected it wasn't medieval. I did look but I don't really like to post negative answers. I'm impressed by Levan's research. ------------------
And as I rode by Dalton-Hall Beneath the turrets high, A maiden on the castle-wall Was singing merrily: The Outlaw by Sir Walter Scott
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/members/philipdavis/index.html |
petalforce
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posted 06-07-2000 04:18 PM
You definitely deserve the thumbs up for this one! No wonder I had such a hard time finding information on it. I am a bit disappointed that it isn't medieval but it is interesting none the less. I also think it photographs very well. Thanks again!!!! |
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