Herstmonceux, Castle, The Inner Courtyard 1890
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Sir Roger Fiennes' ancestor, Sir John, had married the heiress Maud de Monceux in 1320, the last of the family that had held the manor since the 12th century and had given the village the second part of its name; the other part, 'hyrst', is Anglo-Saxon for 'a wooded hill'. This view within the courtyard of the castle shows it after the 1770s stripping out to a hollow shell for the building of Herstmonceux Place, a house designed by Samuel Wyatt. Nowadays, in its restored state the castle is an international study centre affiliated with the University of Kingston, Ontario, in Canada. Before this, it had been the site of the Greenwich Royal Observatory (from 1957 to 1979), and the observatory buildings are now a public museum, the Herstmonceux Science Centre.
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