Grade I listed historic house museum in Rockingham, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Rockingham Castle
Part of Northamptonshire
Corby, England
The main gateway at Rockingham Castle
Type
Enclosure castle
Height
10 metres (33 ft)
Site information
Owner
Saunders Watson family
Condition
Renovated
Site history
Built
11th Century
In use
Private
Materials
Limestone Sandstone
Events
English Civil War
Rockingham Castle is a former royal castle and hunting lodge in Rockingham Forest,[1] approximately two miles north from the town centre of Corby, Northamptonshire.
^Furtado, Peter; Geddes, Candida; Harris, Nathaniel; Harrison, Hazel; Pettit, Paul (1987). Guide to Castles in Britain. Hamlyn – Ordnance Survey. p. 138. ISBN 9780600558699. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
RockinghamCastle is a former royal castle and hunting lodge in Rockingham Forest, approximately two miles north from the town centre of Corby, Northamptonshire...
Watson, Member of Parliament for Lincoln. He was created a Baronet, of RockinghamCastle in the County of Northampton, in the Baronetage of England in 1621...
This division has a well-preserved medieval castle in private hands next to Corby – RockinghamCastle – and about 20 other notable country houses, many...
at Kirby on 9 August 1605 while her husband King James I stayed at RockinghamCastle. James I stayed nine times at Kirby Hall between 1608–1624, one of...
Michael Culme-Seymour, 5th Baronet, Lady Faith was the châtelaine of RockinghamCastle in Northamptonshire, where she oversaw renovations and the redecorating...
Southampton – though the origins of the two names are in fact different. RockinghamCastle was built for William the Conqueror and was used as a Royal fortress...
1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby (1267–1314), governor of RockinghamCastle and steward of Rockingham Forest, England Walter Ashby Plecker (1861–1947), American...
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Kettering and most of the surrounding villages; along with the Watsons of RockinghamCastle, the two families were joint lords of the manor of Kettering. Kettering...
Rockingham Estate was a house and estate near Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland covering much of the area which now makes up Lough Key Forest Park. In 1771...
viaduct, the River Welland, the 82-arch viaduct at Harringworth, and RockinghamCastle. It connects with these long-distance footpaths: Grand Union Canal...
Nicholls of Faxton 1632: John Hewett of Hemington 1633: Lewis Watson of RockinghamCastle 1634: Richard Samwell 1635: Sir John Dryden, 2nd Baronet [citation...
Hall until 1695 when they sold it to Thomas Watson-Wentworth, of RockinghamCastle, the hall was rebuilt in 1719. The barony remained in abeyance for...
(2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 407. ISBN 0-300-09675-5. "RockinghamCastle". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved...
families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle. List of family seats of Scottish nobility List of family seats of Irish...
1299 as Baron la Zouche of Ashby. He was Governor of RockinghamCastle and Steward of Rockingham Forest. However, this barony fell into abeyance on his...