Dereliction

This morning G, H and I went on a circular walk from Bodham to Baconsthorpe Castle, an English Heritage site. It was lovely and sunny when we set off, but very quickly clouded over. A lovely walk across fields and through the village. I thought the photo would make a suitable entry for the Derelict Sunday challenge, thanks to Marlieske for hosting. 

'The extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th century manor house, are a testament to the rise and fall of a prominent Norfolk family, the Heydons. Over 200 years, successive generations of this ambitious family built, then enlarged, and finally abandoned this castle.

Sir John Heydon probably built the strong inner gatehouse during the turbulent Wars of the Roses period, and his son Sir Henry completed the fortified house. In more peaceful times, their descendants converted part of the property into a textile factory, and then added the turreted Elizabethan outer gateway, inhabited until 1920.'