Castle Drogo Devon The Last Castle To Be Built In England.
Castle Drogo is a country house and castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it was the last castle to be built in England. The client was Julius Drewe, the hugely successful founder of the Home and Colonial Stores. Drewe chose the site in the belief that it formed part of the lands of his supposed medieval ancestor, Drogo de Teigne. The architect he chose to realise his dream was Edwin Lutyens, then at the height of his career. Lutyens lamented Drewe's determination to have a castle but nevertheless produced one of his finest buildings. The architectural critic, Christopher Hussey, described the result: The ultimate justification of Drogo is that it does not pretend to be a castle. It is a castle, as a castle is built, of granite, on a mountain, in the twentieth century.
The castle was given to the National Trust in 1974, the first building constructed in the twentieth century that the Trust acquired. Currently undergoing conservation (2013–2018), the castle is a Grade I listed building. The gardens are Grade II listed on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
In 1910 Julius Drewe bought about 450 acres (1.8km2) south and west of the village of Drewsteignton in the belief that he was descended from the Drewe family that once lived here. Born Drew, the son of George Smith Drew and his wife Mary, née Peek, both from substantial families of grocers, Drewe added the e to his surname later in life. By the time of his death in 1931 he had bought up an estate of 1,500 acres. Around 1910 he asked Edwin Lutyens to build him a castle. According to his son Basil, he did so on the advice of Edward Hudson, proprietor of Country Life magazine, who was both a patron and a champion of Lutyens. Drewe was now 54 years old, but he still had time, energy and money to create his new family seat. The budget was £50,000 for the castle, and a further £10,000 for the garden. Lutyens wrote privately of his concern over Drewe's ambitions; I do wish he didn't want a castle but just a delicious loveable house with plenty of good large rooms in it. On 4 April 1911, Drewe's 55th birthday, the first foundation stone was laid.
After Julius's death, his wife Frances and her son Basil continued to live at the castle. During 1939–45, Frances and her daughter Mary ran the house as a home for babies made homeless during the bombings of London. Frances Drewe died in 1954 and Basil was then joined at Drogo by his son Anthony and his wife. In 1974, Anthony and his son, Dr Christopher Drewe, gave Castle Drogo and 600 acres (2.4km2) of the surrounding land to the National Trust. It was the first 20th-century property the charity acquired. The writer and National Trust administrator James Lees-Milne recorded his impressions of the house and its owners in a diary entry dated 9 September 1976; Reached Castle Drogo ... at eleven. Very satisfactory house of clean-cut granite. A new family aspiring to, rather arriving at, landed gentry-hood and now the representative living upstairs in a tiny flat, all within my lifetime.
The castle has been undergoing an extensive, five-year, restoration. A new visitor centre with shop and café opened in the summer of 2009, after English Heritage required that industrial kitchen equipment such as that used by the previous café within the house, be removed from Grade I listed buildings. In February 2011, the National Trust launched a public appeal for money to fund necessary restoration work.
The castle has a formal garden, designed by Lutyens with planting by George Dillistone, which contrasts with its setting on the edge of Dartmoor. In 1915, Lutyens brought in Gertrude Jekyll to assist with the planning. Jekyll's involvement appears to have been limited to designing the planting for the approach to the castle along the drive. The garden is noted for its rhododendrons and magnolias, herbaceous borders, rose garden, shrub garden and circular grass tennis court now used for croquet. The gardens are Grade II listed.
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Castle Drogo - interior, garden, surrounding walks, Tors and views across Dartmoor National Park
A detailed video of Castle Drogo near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. For more information, pictures and directions to Castle drogo, you can visit:
WHAT YOU SEE INSIDE CASTLE DROGO- ANCIENT, ENGLAND, UK
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Castle Drogo - 2015
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Saving Castle Drogo
Castle Drogo is the last castle to have been built in Britain but its suffered from major structural problems ever since completion. If extensive conservation is not undertaken, the castle will become inaccessible and a national treasure will be lost forever.
The full cost of the conservation project will be £11 million over 5 years and the Trust is making approaches to various funding bodies, including a £2.5 million application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), to reach the target.
Please help us save Castle Drogo by visiting nationaltrust.org.uk/savedrogo you can also follow the Castle Drogo campaign on twitter at twitter.com@savecastledrogo and on facebook at facebook.com/savecastledrogo
A dramatic castle in Dartmoor - Castle Drogo
The castle overlooks the Teign Gorge, Dartmoor. A conservation project to make it watertight was nearing its end at the time of our visit. It is in the care of the National Trust.
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Dartmoor Stomps - Castle Drogo to Fingle Bridge
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Time Team Special 56 (2014) - The Edwardian Grand Designer (Drewsteignton, Devon, England)
Sir Tony Robinson goes behind the scenes of the National Trust's £11 million restoration of Castle Drogo in Devon, Britain's newest castle, and finds out about the life and work of its architect.
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Castle Drogo | The Weekend Vlog
A visit with our toddler and baby to Castle Drogo, a National Trust property.
Castle Drogo is a country house and castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. It was built from 1911 to 1930 for Julius Drewe to designs by architect Edwin Lutyens, and is a Grade I listed building.
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Castle Drogo was originally built between 1910 and 1930 for Julius Drewe, a self-made millionaire whose chain of Home and Colonial Stores enabled him to semi-retire in 1899 at the age of 33.
The foundation stone was laid on Drewe's 55th birthday in 1911 and construction took 20 years.
Some aspects of the castle are not accessible, but the garden is ramped despite some steep inclines and bumpy surfaces.
There is also major roofing works being undertaken at the time of the visit, with a view from above for the abler who can climb stairs.
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Victorian Plunge Pool & Salmon Leaps near Castle Drogo, the Last Castle Built in England
Want to see some Victorian history in Dartmoor National Park? Here's a visit to 17th-century Fingle Bridge, and several Victorian-era plunge pools. All are located near Drewsteignton and Castle Drogo, a 20th-century castle which is the last working castle to have been built in England!
Places to see in ( Chagford - UK )
Places to see in ( Chagford - UK )
Chagford is a market town and civil parish on the north-east edge of Dartmoor, in Devon, England, close to the River Teign. It is located off the A382, about 4 miles west of Moretonhampstead. The name Chagford is derived from the word chag, meaning gorse or broom, and the ford suffix indicates its importance as a crossing place on the River Teign.
Archaeological remains confirm that a community has existed here for at least 4000 years. In historical times, Chagford grew due to the wool trade and from tin mining in the area. A weekly market was held here from before 1220, and a livestock market in the town survived until the 1980s. In 1305 it was made a stannary town where tin was traded. Among the most prominent tin-mining families in the 16th century were the Endecotts, Knapmans, Whiddons and Lethbridges.
Whiddon, seat of the Whiddon family. Sir John Whiddon (d.1576), a Justice of the King's Bench under Queen Elizabeth I, purchased the manor of Chagford, built a new manor house at Whiddon, part of which survives today, and built a deer park, the massive granite block wall of which survives today.
Today Chagford is a thriving community with high property prices, busy streets, and an unusually wide range of shops for a town of this size, although not immune to national trends having lost its post office and banks. Two large hardware stores side-by-side in the town square were run by the same two families for over a century, but one of these closed in 2017. It is also known for its arts community, celebrated through the autumn Chagford Film Festival, the springtime Chagword literary festival (every two years), the summer's Chagstock Music Festival, the annual Wonderworks crafts weekend, and other regular cultural events. There are several tea rooms and whole food cafés, one Bangladeshi restaurant, and four pubs. There are numerous guest houses and hotels in the surrounding countryside. These provide accommodation for the large influx of visitors during the year. The early 20th century Edwin Lutyens house Castle Drogo lies nearby in Drewsteignton parish, and overlooks Chagford.
A 16th century building called Endecott House, on the edge of the town square, was given this name in the early 1990s in honour of Pilgrim Father and governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Endecott, who lived in Chagford before leaving for the New World. This building was possibly built as a church house, and has certainly been in community use for many years, including use as a village school. It now serves as a meeting hall.
One of the social centres of Chagford is the village hall, the Jubilee Hall, in the south-east corner of the town next to the public car park. Built in 1936 by public subscription, it also houses the library (which opens three part-days a week). It provides a venue for the regular Friday morning flea markets as well as other activities such as badminton, table tennis, parties, discos, comedy nights, kung fu, Pilates, etc. The town is beginning to outgrow this Hall, and it is being extended during 2016 and 2017. The Three Crowns Hotel dates to the 13th century and is reportedly haunted by the ghost of the cavalier poet, Sidney Godolphin, who was fatally wounded there in the English Civil War.
( Chagford - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Chagford . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Chagford - UK
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Andy at Castle Drogo - Where's Andy? Where's Castle Drogo? A fan video
Andy Wright Travel channel National Trust series visits Castle Drogo in Devon. I've not heard of Castle Drogo and have never been there so after viewing Andy's vlog (filmed in May 2017 and published in Feb-18) I take a look around the web on a Castle Drogo search. This sub-3-minute fan video is the result. Enjoy. And thanks, Andy!
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The banana sketch from Raise the Roof by Get Changed Theatre Company at Castle Drogo
The banana sketch from Raise the Roof by Get Changed Theatre Company at Castle Drogo
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Fingle Bridge, Drewsteignton, Devon by GoPro Timewarp