Hold your fire! From the Sham Castle to the Triumphal Arch: Castle Hill Estate
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Hold your fire! From the Sham Castle to the Triumphal Arch: Castle Hill Estate
Image: © Chris Taken: 22 Jul 2020
See: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000120 ...The early C18 Sham Castle Image] (listed grade II) on the hilltop c 270m north of the house stands on a raised mound with a rubble-stone, buttressed retaining wall at the north-east extremity of the pleasure grounds... The Castle mound allows wide views in all directions, and a series of miniature cannons ornament the southern retaining wall... ...it has been suggested that the Sham Castle at Castle Hill is related to Sanderson Miller's Castle at Hagley (Cherry and Pevsner 1989). Like Stowe, Buckinghamshire (qv), Earl Clinton's landscape comprised a central north/south vista passing from the gothic Sham Castle on the hill behind the house to a Triumphal Arch on the southern horizon.
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