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Buckden Towers

Buckden Bishop’s Palace

May 13, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion

“Princess Dowager”, Anne Neville, Bishops of Lincoln, Buckden Towers, Cambridgeshire, Catherine of Aragon, Cecily Neville, coaching villages, ghosts, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VIII, John Russell, Kimbolton Castle, knot garden, railways, Richard III, Staffords, Thomas Rotherham, towers

A few years back I wrote about Buckden Towers in Cambridgeshire, the old palace of the Bishops of Lincoln. Finally, with the pandemic receding, I was able to visit the site in its small village (once a thriving place in coaching times and earlier but much diminished with the advent of the railways.) Here Richard…
Buckden Towers-Heritage at Risk

Mar 9, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Anne Neville, Bishops of Lincoln, Buckden Towers, buildings at risk, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Edward of Middleham, John Russell, Nottingham, Red Towers, Richard III

Caring for heritage buildings is a never-ending job. They may have stood for hundreds of years but just like every other building, they crumble and decay with time and need urgent restoration. A recently addition to the ever-growing ‘Heritage at Risk’ ledger is Buckden Towers in Cambridgeshire. Formerly known as Buckden Palace, it was home…