Bolsover Castle — the extraordinary baroque fantasy built by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle — was one of the most cultured Royalist households in England before the war. Newcastle fled abroad after Marston Moor. Parliamentary forces besieged Bolsover in 1644-45. After its fall, it was deliberately slighted — though much survived. The Little Castle — Newcastle's intimate retreat — still stands virtually intact, preserving one of the finest examples of English baroque interior decoration.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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