Wentworth Castle (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wentworth Castle is a stately home and estate near Barnsley in South Yorkshire. It was originally the seat of the Earls of Strafford. An older house existed on the estate, then called Stainborough, when it was purchased by Thomas Wentworth, Lord Raby (later Earl of Strafford), in 1711. The precise date of the name change is not known, although it was still Stainborough in Jan Kip's engraved bird's-eye view of parterres and avenues, 1714, and in the first edition of Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715 (illustration, left). The original name survives in the form of Stainborough Castle, a sham ruin constructed as a garden folly (illustration below) on the estate.