Occasional Magazine Vol.4 No.5 (May 1930)
Longford Castle, and its connection with Hurst by A. C. G. Heygate. Medieval Longford Castle near Salisbury is the present seat of the Earl of Radnor and some notable events in its successive ownership and history are outlined. In Elizabethan times the owner was Sir Thomas Gorges, influential at Court, who held the sinecure of Governor of Hurst Castle. About 1591 he and Lady Gorges were able to profit from the contents of a Spanish galleon wrecked at Hurst to complete the building of the present Longford Castle, money for which had hitherto run out.
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