{"id":3516,"date":"2022-05-28T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2022-05-28T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:01:59","slug":"farleigh-hungerford-castle-somerset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3516","title":{"rendered":"Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1270.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1270.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1270-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1270-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <em>English Heritage<\/em><br \/>\nThe castle was begun by the Hungerford family around 1383, and was occupied during the English Civil War. After that time it was partly dismantled and fell into ruin. Today the main surviving parts are the chapel, gatehouse, priest&#8217;s house and two ruined towers.<br \/>\nThe priest&#8217;s house is now set up as an exhibition space. Do not miss the lead coffins in a crypt below the chapel.<br \/>\nIf visiting by car, drive through the stone gatehouse and across the outer court to the car park. Suggested visit time: 1 hour.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3534\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1269.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1269-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3534\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South-west Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_3535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3535\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1271.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1271-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3535\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_3537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3537\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1272.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Farleigh_1272-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3537\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coffins<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Heritage The castle was begun by the Hungerford family around 1383, and was occupied during the English Civil War. After that time it was partly dismantled and fell into ruin. Today the main surviving parts are the chapel, gatehouse, priest&#8217;s house and two ruined towers. The priest&#8217;s house is now set up as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}