Totnes and Berry Pomeroy: A Norman Motte and a Haunted Shell
South West, England
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Totnes and Berry Pomeroy: A Norman Motte and a Haunted Shell
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Totnes climbs from the Dart to a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, built for Juhel of Totnes in William I's reign, and its main street has the covered Butterwalk and the East Gate arch, rebuilt after a fire in 1990. Two and a half miles east, Berry Pomeroy is a Tudor mansion inside the walls of an earlier castle, sold to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, in 1547, abandoned in the late 17th century and famous since the 19th both as a picturesque ruin and as a haunted one.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Climb the keep of Totnes Castle on its Norman motte
2
of 4
Walk the Butterwalk and the Elizabethan high street
3
of 4
Walk into the roofless mansion at Berry Pomeroy Castle
4
of 4
Walk the riverside path along the Dart from Totnes
Climb the keep of Totnes Castle on its Norman motte
Walk the Butterwalk and the Elizabethan high street
Walk into the roofless mansion at Berry Pomeroy Castle
Walk the riverside path along the Dart from Totnes
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Totnes Castle is closed from early November to late March.
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