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Located 15 miles north of York near Henderskelfe, North Yorkshire, is the English country house known as Castle Howard. For over three centuries, the Carlisle branch of the Howard family has called this exclusive residence their home. Lord William Howard, the third son of the 4th Duke of Norfolk, wed Elizabeth Dacre, the youngest daughter of the 4th Baron Dacre, his step-sister, in 1577. She brought with her the large estates of Naworth Castle in Cumberland and Henderskelfe in Yorkshire. The 3rd Earl of Carlisle, a male-line descendant of Lord William Howard, commissioned Castle Howard. The Henderskelfe estate included the chosen location. John Vanbrugh started designing Castle Howard in 1699, marking the beginning of its construction. In 1811, it was finished with the ornamentation of the Long Gallery. The house is bordered by a vast estate that comprised the villages of Welburn, Bulmer, Slingsby, Terrington, and Coneysthorpe and totaled over 13,000 acres during the reign of the 7th Earl of Carlisle. From 1845 until the 1950s, Castle Howard station, the own railway station of the estate, served it. Lady Dorothy Georgiana Howard, the daughter of the 9th Earl, made friends with six of her classmates at Girton College in the early Edwardian period. Among them were Anna Abrikosova, a future candidate for Roman Catholic sainthood, and Gisela Richter, an archaeologist. Lady Dorothy invited all six to spend the holidays at Castle Howard. Geoffrey Howard, the fifth son of the 9th Earl, acquired Castle Howard after his death in 1911. Naworth Castle was the northern country house of succeeding earls. Then-owner Lord Howard of Henderskelfe, younger son of Geoffrey Howard, opened Castle Howard to the public in 1952. It is currently run by the Hon. Nicholas Howard and his wife, Victoria, and owned by Castle Howard Estate Limited, a Howard family company. #History #Architecture #Castles

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