Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, England. Medieval fortified manor house within a moat, built by Sir John de Broughton in 1300, converted into a Tudor style house by Richard Fiennes in 1554. Renovated by architect Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century. 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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