Sizergh Castle and Garden
A guide to visiting Sizergh and the Lake District, England.
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Sizergh Castle and GardenSizergh has been home to the Strickland family for over 760 years. The core of the castle is a 14th century pele tower, but a superb Tudor house was built around the tower. In the Elizabethan period the house gained wonderful carved interiors of oak, including the finest overmantles in England. Around 1770 the great hall range was expanded and given a Georgian facelift. The second floor tower room is illuminated by 15th century trefoil windows, and you can still see the adze marks on the roof-hewn floor boards. The finest room on view is the Inlaid Chamber, which boasts excellent period furniture and panelling inlaid with poplar and bog oak. Sizergh Castle is surrounded by beautiful gardens, featuring a limestone rock garden, pasture land, and woodlands which support a large butterfly population. 
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