Ashby Castle

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Ashby de la Zouch Castle is in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Originally in the 12th century it was a manor house. In 1464 it was granted by Edward IV to William, Lord Hastings who converted it into a castle. The principal building of this time was the Hastings Tower. It was one of many slighted by Oliver Cromwell's forces in the English Civil War. Underground passages run beneath its grounds. It is now managed by English Heritage.

Mary, Queen of Scots is said to have been temporarily kept in the castle.

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• Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7676-3
• Johnson, Paul, Castles of England, Scotland and Wales, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1989. ISBN 0-297-83162-3
• Ashby de la Zouch Castle