House and Garden 
BOTHAL MILL 
linking them together. They now passed 
by marriage again to the Ogles, who held 
other castles and manors all over the country, 
and remained in their possession till another 
heiress married Sir Charles Cavendish and 
was the mother of the great Royalist General 
referred to above. 
During his exile after the defeat of Mars- 
ton Moor, brought about by the character¬ 
istically false impetuosity of Prince Rupert, 
the castle was laid in ruins as a punishment 
for his loyalty. And 
when he returned the 
family settled down 
at Welbeck and has 
remained there ever 
since. The village of 
Bothal was probably 
built out of the ruins 
of the castle; and the 
gateway remained 
open to the weather 
till it was roofed in 
and made habitable 
about sixty years ago. 
It may be interest¬ 
ing to note that this Sir 
William Cavendish, 
Marquis of Newcastle, 
was the grandson of 
the famous historical 
Bess of Hard wick, 
who was famous as 
the builder of the most 
stately homes of Chats- 
worth, Hardwick, Old- 
cotes and Welbeck. 
It was said that a 
gipsy foretold that she 
never would die as 
long as she kept on 
building. She was 
ninety when she un¬ 
dertook to restore the 
great Castle of Bolso- 
ver. During the prog¬ 
ress of the work a 
very hard frost set in; 
she had fires lighted on 
the walls to keep the 
work going, but at last 
the frost conquered 
them and her and she 
died. In the adjoining church, which dates 
from Saxon times, there is a beautiful ala¬ 
baster tomb of Cuthbert, the last Lord Ogle, 
and his wife, the second finest in the county. 
He had filled the windows with rich stained 
glass which, however, the Puritan spite of 
Cromwell's followers destroyed, leaving only 
relics which are the envy of modern artists, 
from Morpeth to Bothal the river Waus- 
heck passes through a well-wooded, rocky 
gorge of about four miles; half way are the 
BOTHALHAUGH GARDENS 
