![]() ![]() It was completed with the decoration of the Long Gallery in 1811. The creation of Castle Howard, began in 1699, with the start of design work by John Vanbrugh. The site selected was part of the Henderskelfe estate. Ĭastle Howard was commissioned by the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, who was a male-line descendant of Lord William Howard. She brought with her the sizable estates of Henderskelfe in Yorkshire and Naworth Castle in what was then Cumberland, now Cumbria. In 1577, the 4th Duke of Norfolk's third son, Lord William Howard, married his step-sister Elizabeth Dacre, youngest daughter of the 4th Baron Dacre. The house is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional "Brideshead", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and in a two-hour 2008 adaptation for cinema. Castle Howard is not a fortified structure, but the term "castle" is sometimes used in the name of an English country house that was built on the site of a former castle. It is a private residence and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years. Location of Castle Howard in North YorkshireĬastle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, within the civil parish of Henderskelfe, located 15 miles (24 km) north of York. ![]()
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