IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Filleigh, BARNSTAPLE, EX32 0RF

With Park Lane (see also Image]) in the foreground. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000120

Beneath a copper beech by Park Lane. The grade I listed park is described at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000120 .

From where Image was taken, looking right down into the Bray valley. Park Lane separates the deer park on the left from the rest of the park. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000120

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.

Seen from near the Stag's Head Inn, with the roof of some of the houses in the group called Stag's Head

See: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000120 ...The early C18 Sham Castle (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. Approached from the north through a stone gothic arched gateway, the rubble-stone Sham Castle is a symmetrical structure comprising a castellated central block with corner turrets, flanked by lower walls terminating in castellated turrets. Now roofless, the Sham Castle originally contained a panelled room and furniture (Batey and Lambert 1990), and gothic windows in the south, west and east facades focus on significant vistas through the ornamental landscape...

See: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000120 ...The early C18 Sham Castle (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. Approached from the north through a stone gothic arched gateway, the rubble-stone Sham Castle is a symmetrical structure comprising a castellated central block with corner turrets, flanked by lower walls terminating in castellated turrets. Now roofless, the Sham Castle originally contained a panelled room and furniture (Batey and Lambert 1990), and gothic windows in the south, west and east facades focus on significant vistas through the ornamental landscape...

See: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000120 ...The early C18 Sham Castle (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. Approached from the north through a stone gothic arched gateway, the rubble-stone Sham Castle is a symmetrical structure comprising a castellated central block with corner turrets, flanked by lower walls terminating in castellated turrets. Now roofless, the Sham Castle originally contained a panelled room and furniture (Batey and Lambert 1990), and gothic windows in the south, west and east facades focus on significant vistas through the ornamental landscape...

Cottages to the north of the Filleigh Bridge taken from the south.

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.