A sunny autumn day

Impressive building set in beautiful countryside.

Love your photos of the water 🙂.

thank you for sharing. I loved all the historic places when we used to visit Victoria.

what a lovely blog Hywel. Loved all the historic places when we used to visit Victoria.

A great place to visit! Thanks for posting this blog, Hywel, with all the lovely photos of the grounds! 👍😀

What a beautiful place to visit. The views of the lake are stunning - it looks so serene and calm. You can sense the peacefulness of the place in all your photos.

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looks a lovely place Hywel , nice to get some sunshine too

Wonderful Hywel. On such a great day and in the beautiful setting that you were in I only saw two other people enjoying the environs in one of your photos.

A lovely blog Hywel, thankyou for adding the historical facts, I love these sort of places as you know, this house and its surroundings are stunning as shown in the photo's, I could spend hours there..... You picked a grand day for your outing, all the photographs are lovely, although I cannot paint they would make great jigsaw puzzles, my favourite for that would be the last one, the beautiful colours of the leaves in the foregound are specially attractive, can I use that please, I have a jigsaw app on my laptop that allows me to create my own from photo's, it passes away the time during the winters months xx...

Lovely place to visit, Hywel. Thank you for sharing this with us. Beautiful architecture, original and new. The lake and woodland are picture perfect too. I can see why the Signora wanted to live here.

Fab. place Hywel. Would love to pay it a visit, so thanks for sharing it.

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Wow! Imagine living there. You would certainly need a groundsman or two. Did it have gardens Hywel? I'm imagining a good big veg plot and some fruit trees. Is the little building in the last picture a small landing stage? You would have to have a rowing boat if you lived there don't you think?

It didn't have gardens Sue, it was just woodlands and a lake.

The building in the last picture is the back of the castle, and it is big. It may look small because it's in the distance.
What you think is a landing stage is actually a bridge over the river.

What a lovely place Hywel! I am so pleased you shared this with us!
You are very lucky to have places like this not far from you and I loved the lake and the woodland walk.
The castle is just amazing! I also loved the story of the opera singer! Sounded so romantic.
Was you allowed in the castle?

Looks like you chose a beautiful day. Lovely, atmospheric photos.

Rose the castle is now a hotel. I don't know if the public are allowed inside. It is somewhat separate from the grounds and is only reached from the main road.
I went in many years ago to an antiques fair which was held there. That was a long time before it became a hotel.

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Thanks Hywel!

I almost missed this Hywel, and what a lovely place to visit,so near to your home..Your Photography is wonderful:o) We love to visit Historical places like these too,and visited a few in North Wales in early summer,on a package holiday, which was so interesting..
Thank you for sharing with us..x

Thank you Sandra :) x