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Trapped
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The tunnel, Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

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Daffodils
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Ruins of Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

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Bench
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Ruins of Ashby de la Zouch Castle. Spot the old graffiti?

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The tunnel
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The tunnel, Ashby de la Zouch castle

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Haunted Castle
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Ashby Castle, Ashby de la Zouch.

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Ashby Castle
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Looking towards the chapel, Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

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Staircase
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Ruins of Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

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Ashby de la Zouch Castle
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An underground passage from the kitchen to the tower, probably created during the Civil War , can still be explored today.

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Ashby Castle
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Ashby Castle, Ashby de la Zouch

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Daisies
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Ruins of Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

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In the tunnel.
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At the end of the tunnel, Ashby de la Zouch Castle,

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Locked in
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Ashby de la Zouch Castle,

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Ashby de la Zouch Castle
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View from the Hastings Tower .

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Doom
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Tunnel under Ashby castle, very spooky place.

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Ashby Castle in the snow
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Ashby Castle January 2010

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Ashby Castle
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Ruins of Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

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Ruins
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Ruins of Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

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Tower
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Ruins of Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

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Ashby de la Zouch Castle
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Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century. It only achieved castle status in the 15th century, by which time the hall and buttery had been enlarged, with a solar to the east and a large integral kitchen added to the west.

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View from the tower Ashby de la Zouch Castle, Leicestershire
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Ashby de la Zouch Castle
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After the Norman Conquest the estates at Ashby, or Aschebie as it is called in the Domesday Book, was owned by the Earls of Leicester. There was no castle here at that time, just an unpretentious fortified manor house. Sometime in the late 12th century the estate at Ashby was granted to the le Zouch family in exchange for military service to the Earls. We know almost nothing of the Zouch family manor house, which may have stood where the castle great hall is now. The Zouch line died out in 1399 and legal wrangling ensued over who should inherit. The disputes raged on until 1462 when William, Lord Hastings was granted possession, along with enormous estates elsewhere in the Midlands.

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