the history of the church is explored further. There is no sign of a Saxon church but within fifty years of William the Conqueror arriving on these shores, a church had been built at Hartley Mauditt.The name Hartley Mauditt comes from two periods.Hartley has a probable Saxon origin, meanin...
The keep is a curious building; it does not stand atop the motte but encloses it. The motte was built around the remains of Bishop Henry's original keep, then the space filled in to create a new, larger motte, and the wall built around the mound. After it was filled in, the origin...
It was at first rented out, then in 1982 a small number of state rooms were opened to the public. The trouble was, the rooms were poorly furnished, and did not give a real sense of what it would have looked like in its Robert Adam heyday. But help was at hand, for in 1987 the ...