Bothal Castle 
AN ENGLISH CASTLE AND ITS VILLAGE 
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By the Honourable Miss Sackville West 
"DOTHAL CASTLE, as it now stands, is 
only the great gateway of a larger 
castle of much greater importance which 
was destroyed by Cromwell in revenge for 
a successful resistance against his troops. 
Its owner, at that time, was the famous 
Royalist General, The Marquis of New¬ 
castle. It now is the property of the Duke 
of Portland, and is the residence of his 
agent, whom he honours with a visit every 
year on the occasion of his agricultural 
show. It is charmingly situated in one of 
the many small and beautiful valleys which 
are formed by the rivers of Northumberland 
and, snugly ensconced among high banks, 
clothed with trees of the most varied foliage, 
BOTHAL VILLAGE 
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