Through a field of grazing sheep to the ruins

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck 

The 16^th century The Fawsley Dower House

The Dower House at Fawsley is a former hunting lodge with watchtower dates from the early 16th century and was extended to form a small Dower House. The house was identified by Pevsner as the earliest brick-built structure in Northamptonshire.

Despite its importance to the county’s history, the building now stands as a ruin. Some of the stonework has collapsed and experts have concerns about other parts of the structure too.

The Dower House has been unoccupied since 1702 when the last occupant, Annie Knightly died, it is now a ruin

 “Some stabilisation of the ruins is being undertaken.”

 The way through a field of grazing sheep to see the ruins

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The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.
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 The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.
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The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.
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It was impossible to see the ruins up close, so shame