Corfe Castle is now owned by the National Trust who were given it by the Bankes family (link below) who owned it having bought in 1635. The castle was owned by the Crown until Elizabeth 1 sold it in the 16th century
The original owners of Chiham Castle were the Digges Family who owned the castle from 1612 to 1724. The Colebrooke Family then held the castle from 1724 to 1774. Thomas Heron. a wealthy lawyer, then owned the castle until 1794 when it passed to the Wildman Family until 1861 then the Hardy Family until 1918. Sir Edmund Davis, Somerset De Chair, and Viscount Massereene owned the castle at various times until the current owners Tessa and Stuart Wheeler bought the castle in 2002.
Ardrossan Castle is in Scotland. It is situated on the coast of Ayrshire. The castle was originally called Castle Crags but it was renamed to Ardrossan after the family who owned it.
Corfe Castle was owned by members of the Bankes family from 1635 to some time in the 1980s, a period of roughly 350 years.
Yes, he actually grew up in a castle that his family owned.
It is now owned by a company called Diageo.
Ballynahinch Castle
Balmoral Castle, which has been owned by Britain's royal family since the reign of Queen Victoria in 1852. It is a favorite residence of Queen Elizabeth II when she is away from Buckingham Palance in London.
Tamworth Castle was built in the year 913 by Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians. It is now owned by the Tamworth Borough Council.
The construction began in the late 11th Century as a Welsh Border strongholds of Roger de Lacy and it was held by that family until the 13th century. It is now a part ruined, non inhabited castle owned by the Trustees of Powis Castle on behalf of the family of the Earl of Powis
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Ballynahinch Castle