After an initial £9 million restoration, the castle and some gardens opened for public visits in 2011, for the first time since 1938;In 2016, the Lowther family again began to manage the property in advance of the official reopening for the 2017 season. The principal entrance to the site is from Askham, where the public road leads into the site over Askham Bridge on the east side of the village and runs north and then east, past Lowther church, to Newtown. You are in: Cumbria > History > History features > Lowther Castle. In 1807 John Webb (c 1754-1828) also prepared a design which may have been partially executed, but it is not possible to relate the features of the park and the pattern of planting as shown on the 1859 OS map to his design with any confidence. The parkland was successively augmented and it reached its greatest size, when it covered more than 3000 acres, under the fifth Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944). Er wurde Wegen seiner Extravaganzen war er gezwungen, einige seiner ererbten Grundstücke zu verkaufen. In 1878, four years before obtaining his inheritance, Hugh married Lady Grace Gordon, third daughter of the After he obtained his inheritance in 1882 Hugh indulged his many passions. Lowther Castle (listed grade II*) was designed by Robert Smirke (1780-1867) and built 1807-14 at a cost of £77,000. The Castle … A painting by J M W Turner of 1809 (Harris 1979) does not show the principal avenue, perhaps as a result of artistic licence, but if it was removed as proposed by both Webb and Brown, it had been replanted on the same line by the time Jan De Wint painted the scene c 1835 (ibid). This is immediately west of an area of woodland called Decoy Hag, and the pond and Decoy Hag are within a roughly oval area shown on an estate map of 1685 as a park. The third avenue, which is shown on the 1859 OS map, ran parallel to and c 300m to the east of Buckholme Drive, extending c 600m north of the public road. He was also a Member of Parliament representing West Cumberland between 1847 and 1872.In 1852 he married Emily Susan Caulfield, the daughter of Mr St George Caulfield of Donoman Castle of Roscommon, Ireland. The area around an old summer house to the west of the garden will be planted with honeysuckle, roses and bulbs. The grounds were used to test a secret tank weapon during the Second World War.

She was six feet tall and her dark eyes and brilliant colouring made any women near her look pale. "In 1882 at the age of twenty six, St George died after a short illness which was followed by pneumonia. To the south-east the boundary is defined first by the road between Newtown and Lowther village and then, turning south, the outer edge of Boonby Plantation. Er ging in die Das andere Kind William Lowthers, das ein Erbe bekam, war William Lowther starb 1872 und, weil er keine legitimen Erben hatte, fiel das Anwesen von Lowther Castle an seinen Neffen Henry Lowther war 54 Jahre alt, als er das Anwesen der Familie erbte. Thomas Wilkinson (1751-1836) laid out paths along the riverbanks in Yanwath Woods in 1804 and subsequent years. The River Lowther runs along the western side of the northern part of the park and then curves east at a point c 800m north-west of the Castle in an area called Low Gardens, where a natural amphitheatre is formed by the fall of the land to the riverbank. His eldest son, St George Henry Lowther (1855-1882) then succeeded but suffered ill health and died in 1882.

The kitchen garden is situated c 800m south-east of the Castle and is reached from a drive running south from the public road to Lowther village.

After the 2006 death of Lord Lonsdale, the chicken-broiler unit and the trees were removed. Henry was born in 1818. History. Nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem Die Gärten von Lowther Castle wurden 1935 aufgegeben. Erst 1954 wurde es an die Familie zurückgegeben. The Kaiser gave Lonsdale the During the First World War he helped to found the Blue Cross where his chief role was as a recruitment officer of both men and horses. Wordsworth wrote a long poem in her honour in the album which has been included in his published works.Robert Southey, another famous poet, was also a frequent visitor at the Castle and he too wrote in Lady Lonsdale's album. The north front of Lowther Castle overlooks a terrace and forecourt by Robert Smirke. The weapon, a … In summer 2016, One of the projects is the Garden in the Ruin, a new phase after the 2015 plantings, including Hydrangea aspera Sargentiana and Parthenocissus henryana. F O Morris, A Series of Picturesque Views 2, (1866-80), pl 65 St George was born in 1855 and was only 23 when he inherited Lowther Castle. His brother Lancelot the 6th Earl inherited the estate in 1944 but because of Hugh's large debts was forced to sell many of the family's treasures. He became a senior steward of the Because of his extravagance he was forced to sell some of his inherited properties. The remains of a summerhouse shown on the 1898 OS map are situated c 300m south-west of the Castle, overlooking the terraced walk which extends southwards from the north end of the garden for a distance of c 1km.