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Images from our recent visit to Athelhampton Hall, Dorset, England.
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels. The compilations are a mix of R7 - Karen/ R5 - Phil).
You can find out more about Athelhampton Hall by clicking Here.
Phil and Karen
1. Occupation of the site is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor, then called Pidele, was held by the Bishop of Salisbury with ‘Odbold’ named as a tenant. (Of note, the River ‘Piddle’ runs through the property...
).
2. The name 'Athelhampton' is composed of 3 Saxon words, 'athel' (noble), 'ham' (home or habitation), and 'ton' (denoting the superlative degree; the home of Æthelhelme, the Saxon Duke who was killed while commanding the Dorset men in an engagement to resist the invading Danes at Portland in 837).
3. In the 13th-Century Athelhampton belonged to the de Loundres family before passing to the de Pydele’s in the reign of Richard II. In 1350 Sir Richard Martyn of Waterston, descended from the Martyns of Turibus near Bayeux, married the de Pydele heiress. The Martyns and their descendants lived here for 250 years.
4. In 1485 Sir William Martyn, a land owner and collector of wine duty at Poole, built the current Athelhampton Hall, including the Great Hall.
5. The property was extended and remodelled as it passed through various ownerships (and states of repair), until acquired by Robert Victor Cooke in in 1957.
6. In 2019, after 62 years of ownership by the Cooke family, the house was bought by economist and author Giles Keating, who has since undertaken further restoration. Athelhampton Hall is considered to be one of the most haunted houses in England - click Here (if you dare!
).
(Sources: Athelhampton, Wikipedia).
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels. The compilations are a mix of R7 - Karen/ R5 - Phil).
You can find out more about Athelhampton Hall by clicking Here.
Phil and Karen
1. Occupation of the site is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor, then called Pidele, was held by the Bishop of Salisbury with ‘Odbold’ named as a tenant. (Of note, the River ‘Piddle’ runs through the property...
).
2. The name 'Athelhampton' is composed of 3 Saxon words, 'athel' (noble), 'ham' (home or habitation), and 'ton' (denoting the superlative degree; the home of Æthelhelme, the Saxon Duke who was killed while commanding the Dorset men in an engagement to resist the invading Danes at Portland in 837).
3. In the 13th-Century Athelhampton belonged to the de Loundres family before passing to the de Pydele’s in the reign of Richard II. In 1350 Sir Richard Martyn of Waterston, descended from the Martyns of Turibus near Bayeux, married the de Pydele heiress. The Martyns and their descendants lived here for 250 years.
4. In 1485 Sir William Martyn, a land owner and collector of wine duty at Poole, built the current Athelhampton Hall, including the Great Hall.
5. The property was extended and remodelled as it passed through various ownerships (and states of repair), until acquired by Robert Victor Cooke in in 1957.
6. In 2019, after 62 years of ownership by the Cooke family, the house was bought by economist and author Giles Keating, who has since undertaken further restoration. Athelhampton Hall is considered to be one of the most haunted houses in England - click Here (if you dare!
).
(Sources: Athelhampton, Wikipedia).
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