What is recorded here

Widdrington Castle and 18th century Gothic castle and gardens south of Widdrington Farm is a scheduled monument in Northumberland, England. The official record protects the remains and gardens without saying that the public may walk through them. Behind that boundary, a person may have built the castle to pretend the landscape belonged to fantasy rather than memory. The fake castle still stands because someone believed the fake world was worth keeping.

The National Heritage List for England records Widdrington Castle and 18th century Gothic castle and gardens south of Widdrington Farm as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Widdrington Castle was originally built in the 14th century by the Widdrington family, a prominent Northumbrian landowning family. It is remembered for its historical association with the region's medieval aristocracy and its later 18th-century Gothic revival structures, which reflect changing architectural tastes and the Romantic interest in medieval heritage.

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