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Stainborough Castle, Barnsley - by Tom Curtis ©
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Photographer: © Tom Curtis (Gallery)(30th May 2020)
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Stainborough Castle, Barnsley

In the grounds of Wenworth Castle near Barnesley South Yorkshire lies Stainborough Castle. An older house existed on the estate, then called Stainborough, when it was purchased by Thomas Wentworth, Baron Raby (later Earl of Strafford), in 1708. It was still called Stainborough in Jan Kip's engraved bird's-eye view of parterres and avenues, 1714, and in the first edition of Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715. The name was changed in 1731. The original name survives in the form of Stainborough Castle, a sham ruin constructed as a garden folly on the estate.
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