Coates Castle

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Coates Castle, Pulborough, West Sussex is a Grade-II mansion listed by the National Trust and is the former seat of the Coates family. It is the place where Lady Louisa Jane Russell, an ancestor of Princes William and Harry, passed away on 31 March 1905.

Coates Castle has been designated by English Nature as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and consists of three blocks of land all within a one kilometre radius which contain the entire known remaining British population of the field cricket Gryllus campestris, an insect protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

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• Pictures and information: Gryllus campestris