Compton Castle, Devon : National Trust Guidebook, Paperback Book

Compton Castle, Devon : National Trust Guidebook Paperback

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Built between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the castle has been home to the Gilbert family for most of the last 600 years.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539-83) was coloniser of Newfoundland and half-brother to Sir Walter Raleigh.

Given to the National Trust in 1951 by Commander Walter Raleigh Gilbert, the castles is lived in by his son and daughter-in-law.

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