
What is recorded here
Grimsthorpe Castle is a massive country house in Lincolnshire occupied by the de Eresby family since 1516, wearing the martial silhouette of a fortress though it never fought one. Charles Brandon rebuilt it in eighteen months using stone taken from a dissolved abbey, rushing a grand residence into being before foundations properly settled. The speed still shows in its joints and rooms, as if the house has been bracing itself against the ground for five centuries.
Grimsthorpe Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of South Kesteven. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Grimsthorpe Castle was built in the 17th century by the Willoughby family, who held it for centuries as their principal seat. It is important as a notable example of Jacobean architecture and as the ancestral home of the Willoughbys, later Dukes of Ancaster.
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