Gate piers, Castle Hill House
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Gate piers, Castle Hill House
Image: © Hugh Craddock Taken: 15 Jun 2016
Gate piers at Darklane Wood lodge entrance to Castle Hill House. Formerly, there was a carriage drive from Filleigh Bridge (the northerly one, near the site of Filleigh Station where the North Devon link road crosses under Park Lane) to the house, through these gate piers. The carriage drive was severed by the construction of the railway, but presumably gained greater importance with the opening of the station at Filleigh, and declined again after the closure of the railway. There is now little trace of the carriage drive north-east of Darklane Wood, and the carriage drive through the gardens is no more than a grassy track. But the fine piers, and the lodge nearby, are a reminder that this would once have been the route by which most guests arrived.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.043614
Longitude
-3.895441