Gwrych Castle

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Gwrych Castle (; Welsh: Castell Gwrych; pronounced [ˌkastɛɬ ˈɡwrɨːχ] ) is a Grade I listed country house near Abergele in Conwy County Borough, Wales. On an ancient site, the building was created by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh and his descendants over much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The castle and its 236-acre (96 ha) estate are now owned by a charity, the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust. The family had owned land in the Abergele area since at least the 16th century and claimed much older descent. In the very early 19th century Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh determined to replace the existing house with a much larger building. Designs were prepared by Charles Busby and exhibited in 1815. Busby was subsequently dismissed and Thomas Rickman engaged, while Bamford-Hesketh's ambitions grew from a Regency style country house into an enormous Gothic Revival castle. The foundation stone was laid in 1819. Bamford-Hesketh's heirs continued his building, and at various times C. E. Elcock...

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