Longford Castle
Local highlightOpen to visitorsa private home — open only for a few pre-booked guided tours each summer, sold through the National Gallery
Longford Castle is an Elizabethan house built in the 1590s for Sir Thomas Gorges in an unusual triangular plan, its three round towers said to stand for the Trinity — construction was famously part-funded by silver salvaged from a wrecked Spanish Armada ship. Still the private home of the Bouverie family, Earls of Radnor, it holds a major art collection, much of it on long-term loan to the National Gallery. Access reflects that link: the castle opens only for a handful of pre-booked guided tours each summer, run by the National Gallery from Salisbury. The River Avon runs along the edge of the grounds.
