Magnificent windows from 1520

Visited Thornbury today and had lunch in the Castle which is now a 'Luxury' hotel.  The castle was really a fortified manor house but was being well extended by its owner Edward Stafford who became the third Earl of Richmond. However as he was a distant cousin of Henry Vlll and probably had a better claim to the throne  Henry eventually got him beheaded after a trumped up charge of treason was made in 1521.  Henry confiscated the castle and  spent ten days here with Anne Boleyn  in 1536  when on his honeymoon tour. 

The village sported a grand number of beautiful old cottages, many inns,  a fish and chip shop in the old Registry Office, a haul of 11,000 Roman coins dug up when someone was making a pond, an extraordinary number of table top tombs in the well maintained churchyard and Dagg's Allotments which are so well tended they have featured in tv. programmes.  Two C16 castle chimneys are in the extras.