An excursion on Thursday 14th July 2016 to Kimbolton Castle and Buckden Tower led by Penny Messenger and Margaret Truman.
Kimbolton is a late Stuart house adapted from a thirteenth century manor house. Katherine of Aragon spent the last months of her life there, it was later the home of the earls and dukes of Manchester, and is now a school.
Buckden Tower was a twelfth century fortified manor house and later a moated Bishop’s Palace for the Bishops of Lincoln.