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7 unusual facts about Lancaster Castle


Hugh Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton

He was also a chairman of the stewards of the British Jockey Club and Constable of Lancaster Castle, his ancestors having held the Constableship of Liverpool Castle until it was destroyed c1700.

Joseph Pilates

Nevertheless, the British authorities interned him during World War I along with other German citizens in an internment camp, first in Lancaster Castle where he taught wrestling and self-defence, boasting that his students would emerge stronger than they were before their internment.

Lancaster Castle

The artist Robert Freebairn was paid £500 to paint twelve watercolours of the work in 1800 to be presented to the Duke of Lancaster, King George III.

Part of the agreement was that the King of Scotland would relinquish the Honour of Lancaster, which would be held by William, Stephen's son.

In the south-west corner of the castle is a cylindrical tower named Adrian's Tower from the popular legend that it was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Lancaster City F.C.

The club play at Giant Axe, located close to Lancaster railway station and both Lancaster Castle and Lancaster Priory Church.

Lancaster Prison

Lancaster Castle, a former Category C men's prison in Lancaster, Lancashire, England


Ambrose Barlow

The priest was restrained, then taken on a horse with a man behind him to prevent his falling, and escorted by a band of sixty people to the Justice of the Peace at Winwick, before being transported to Lancaster Castle.

Edward Graham Paley

He took over from Sharpe as Bridgemaster of the South Lonsdale Hundred in 1860, and in 1868 he was appointed as inspector of Lancaster Gaol and the Judge's Lodgings.

Hauenštejn

Ferdinand Buquoy continued the reconstruction under the influence of historism, taking its examples from England (Windsor, Arundel, Belvoir, Lancaster or Oxford) and Bavaria (Hohenswangau, Lahneck).


see also

Lancaster railway/railroad station

Lancaster railway station, formerly Lancaster Castle railway station, a station in Lancaster, England