Wray Castle
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Wray Castle is a Victorian neo-gothic building at Claife in Cumbria within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire. The house and grounds have belonged to the National Trust since 1929. Th
Wray Castle: its gothic features include fake arrowslits
Beatrix Potter aged 16 stayed here in 1882 on a family holiday, beginning her long association with the Lake District.
The Badge of "RMS Wray Castle" (as worn by some cadets during Merchant Navy College days)
"Princess of the Lake" at Wray Castle jetty
Hardwicke Rawnsley
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Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley was an Anglican priest, poet, local politician and conservationist. He became nationally and internationally known as one of the three founders of the National Trust for Pl
Wray Castle
…wife's fortune. After Dawson's death in 1875, the estate was inherited by his fifteen-year-old nephew, Edward Preston Rawnsley. In 1877 Edward's cousin, Hardwicke Rawnsley, took up the appointment of vicar of Wray Church. To protect the countryside from damaging development, Hardwicke Rawnsley, building on an idea propounded…
H D Rawnsley 1918
Parish church at Shiplake in Oxfordshire. Rawnsley was born in the rectory.
Octavia Hill (top) and Emma Cons
St Margaret, Low Wray, where Rawnsley was vicar from 1877 to 1883