Thornbury Castle Hotel
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Thornbury Castle Hotel
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 1 Jan 2012
Set back behind St Mary's Church, beyond the north end of Castle Street, Thornbury. The hotel's website states that this is the only Tudor castle in England to open as a hotel, and that "Edward Stafford, the 3rd Duke of Buckingham received a royal licence to build this fortified manor or castle-palace in 1510. Work started the following year but stopped when the Duke was executed on the orders of his distant cousin Henry VIII for alleged treason in 1521. In 1535, King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, stayed here. Princess Mary, later Queen Mary I, also lived here for several years. Today, much still remains of the original 16th century building."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.613838
Longitude
-2.530559