Belvoir Castle — perched dramatically above the Vale of Belvoir on the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border — was a Royalist stronghold that Parliament reduced in 1645-46. The castle was garrisoned for the king throughout the main war. After its surrender, Parliament ordered it slighted — its towers were demolished and its walls breached. The ruins were only replaced when the Manners family rebuilt the castle in the 18th-19th centuries to create the present spectacular structure.
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