Rowton Castle, Shropshire
Photo © Richard Dorrell, August 2002
Rowton Castle Gatehouse
Photo © John Firth, 30 September 2009
Rowton Castle, Shropshire
Photo © Richard Dorrell, August 2002
Rowton Castle, Shropshire Photo © Richard Dorrell, August 2002 |
Rowton Castle Gatehouse Photo © John Firth, 30 September 2009 |
Rowton Castle, Shropshire Photo © Richard Dorrell, August 2002 |
Rowton Castle was purchased in 1941 by the Royal Nation College for the Blind.
Rowton Castle is now an Hotel. The school closed in 1971 and it was not until
1986 that work began to convert the ruin into a luxury hotel. The hotel opened
to the public on 12th April, 1989.
--ROWTON CASTLE, SHROPSHIRE
Rowton. A township in the parish of Alberbury, and in the Ford division of the hundred of Ford. 7 miles west of Shrewsbury. Rowton and Amaston contain 47 houses, 227 inhabitants.
Rowton Castle, is the seat of Richard Lyster, esq. It has lately been rebuilt in the castellated form. The Castle stands on a gentle eminence, and the beauty of its situation, in a fertile and picturesque country, is much heightened by the bold and majestick appearance of the Moelygolfa and Breidden hills, on the summit of which, is a Pillar erected by the gentlemen of Montgomeryshire, in commemoration of the gallant Rodney's victory, in 1782.
Near this spot is supposed to have stood the Roman Rutunium, but not a trace of it is to be seen.
THE SHROPSHIRE GAZETTEER, 1824--