Marlborough Castle

Marlborough Castle, privately referred to and recorded in chronicled reports as The Mound, was an eleventh century regal mansion situated in the common area of Marlborough, a market town in the English region of Wiltshire, on the Old Bath Road, the old principle street from London to Bath. The dump cart on which the stronghold was manufactured, maybe the "pushcart of Maerla" is by all accounts an ancient earthwork which shaped the motte of the Norman Marlborough Castle. It gets by as a tree-secured hill at the focal point of Marlborough College.

The manor was in vestiges by 1403. Another living arrangement was based on the site by Francis Seymour, first Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, who had obtained the site from his senior sibling William Seymour, second Duke of Somerset. It was supplanted in 1683-84 by the "new house" for his grandson Charles Seymour, sixth Duke of Somerset, evidently to outlines by John Deane, a surveyor of Reading, Berkshire. The house frames the core of the present Marlborough College. In the 18th century it was the adored habitation of Isabella, Countess of Hertford, the patroness of William Shenstone and James Thomson.

Stephen Duck, the "thresher artist", depicted the house amid Lady Hertford's time in A portrayal of a Journey to Marlborough. The house declined into a training hotel, the Castle Inn, where the Marlborough Club, whose individuals were Tory men of honor from Marlborough and the encompassing zone, was set up in 1774. The club met at the Castle hotel until 1842; the house turned into the core of Marlborough College, established in 1843.