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Hereford & Worcester,20 Oct 2025,15 mins

Croft Castle: A thousand years of history

Secret Herefordshire

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The 1,700 acre estate can trace its roots to the Domesday Book, with links to the Wars of the Roses, the Tudors, the English Civil War, Georgian kings, a shocking high-profile divorce and even Sir Winston Churchill. Take an exclusive tour of the castle with Emma Davies and the National Trust's Ian Grafton and discover how it's a miracle that the building still stands today. The castle as we know it today was re-built in the 17th century, after royalists ensured parliamentary forces couldn't re-use the facility once they had retreated from the area.

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