Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, England. 12th century castle rebuilt to designs by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1720 by Charles Edward Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester. William Montagu, 5th Duke, was Governor of Jamaica and a slave owner (7 enslaved). Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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