Hidden Magnolias

Thanks to a friend, who knows I have a passion for crumbling mansions, I came upon knowledge of this house today. The Berkyn Manor Farm & Manor House in Horton - just 4 miles from Windsor Castle. http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/02/07/milton/ Picture Medvia.com.uk The house is reportedly once home of John Milton, poet, author of  Paradise Lost.  He lived in the house with his parents from 1632 to 1638. (Not 100% sure about that, but perhaps this is the site of John Milton's home.) She has really good bones and once was quite the show place.  Medvia.com.uk From all the pictures, it appears to have just been left "as is" by the previous owner, Ernest Raynor. I did a little more Googling and found several sources with pictures.  Let's look. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/mansions-manors-country-houses/75121-berkyn-manor-horton-sept-2012-a.html http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/mansions-manors-country-houses/75121-berkyn-mano...

Most haunted castle in England? The Berry Pomeroy Castle. Hidden away in the small village of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, England, it is the ruined shell of a great Elizabethian mansion. Some history. When the Pomeroy family began to build Berry Pomeroy Castle in the later 15th century, they had already owned the manor of ‘Berri’ for over 400 years. It had originally been granted by William the Conqueror to  Ralf de Pomaria, a Norman knight from La Pommeraye near Falaise.  Exactly when the castle was begun remains uncertain. It first appears in the records when Sir Richard Pomeroy died in 1496 as owner of the ‘honour, castle and manor of Bury’. In December 1547, Berry Pomeroy was bought from the impoverished Sir Thomas Pomeroy by the wealthy and powerful Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (c 1500–1552). Seymour was the brother of Henry VIII’s third and favorite queen, Jane Seymour, and in 1547 became ‘Lord Protector’ of his nine-year-old nephew, King Edw...