Croft Castle Unveiled: Narration & Stunning DJI Drone Footage! 🎥
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- STUNNING VIEWS FROM THE AIR OF CROFT CASTLE
Croft Castle, located in Herefordshire, England, has been associated with the Croft family since 1085. The original castle at this site was an earthen ringwork and has been shown by recent excavation to have been similar to Stokesay Castle. A circular ditch surrounded a curving earthern bank which was topped by a palisade of stout timbers. There were timber buildings within the enclosed area and the ramparts may have been strengthened by the addition of wooden watchtowers.
A larger stone castle was built to replace the earth and timber castle around 1400. The new castle was of quadrangular plan and had high but relatively narrow round towers at each corner. It may also have had projecting square turrets at the mid points of each wall but only the turret on the north side now remains. The four round towers still exist to their original height and their battlements have been restored in later years.
The Church of St Michael dates from around the 14th century. The box pews are seventeenth-century and there are some medieval floor tiles made at Malvern.
The castle was involved in the battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461 when Sir Richard Croft set forth from it with his soldiers towards the battleground a few miles away. A descendent of Sir Richard fought for King Charles at Stokesay in the 1640's during the English civil war and, following the eventual Royalist defeat, Croft Castle was slighted to render it incapable of further military service.
In the 1760s, the Castle was remodelled by architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, designer of the world's first iron bridge that spans the river Severn. Georgian sash windows replaced mullion windows and Pritchard designed the plasterwork ceilings, gothic staircase and employed master craftsmen to undertake his designs for the chimneypieces.
The estate was sold in 1799 due to the families financial difficulties associated with the South Sea Bubble but was repurchased back by Katherine, Lady Croft, in 1923.
The castle had undergone further alterations in 1913, to the designs of the architect Walter Sarel. He had the central section of the eighteenth-century gothic entrance replaced with a battlemented porch with a mullioned bay window above and the lined the entrance hall with oak panelling. Also removed were most of Pritchard's crenellations along the parapets. In 1937, the seventeenth-century service wing to the north-west was demolished.
Today, Croft Castle showcases rare furniture, impressive plasterwork, and well-maintained gardens. The remains of the original ringwork castle can still be seen in the nearby meadow.
The 1950s was a precarious decade for the owners of historic country estates. Crippling death duties and the increasing cost of upkeep meant that many were sold or pulled down. Seventeen were demolished in Herefordshire during the 20th century, and Croft could easily have been the eighteenth.
The castle faced the threat of demolition when an insurance company expressed interest in buying the land without the castle, intending to fell the park trees. However, Diana Uhlman, a Croft descendant, ensured its preservation by raising an endowment and in 1957 the National Trust acquired Croft Castle and its 1,500 acres of parkland thus narrowly avoiding the same fate as many other estates across Britain.
The Croft family were able to preserve their heritage through the sale, and successfully negotiated their continued occupancy of the Castle by using some of country house’s rooms for their own private use.
The Grade I listed castle and Church along with the rest of the Grade II listed Parkland estate was opened to the public in 1960 and continues to be maintained by the National Trust.
It is thought that there were 500 visitors to Croft in 1957 with running costs amounting to £1,900 and was supported by a caretaker and two estate men to look after the grounds. During it’s 2019 season, the numbers exceeded 100,000 and the team that lives and works at Croft today is considerably larger.
Everyone who visits the castle and estate, buys a cup of tea or donates and supports the National Trust help to conserve Croft for future generations to enjoy.
Music
Sands of Time by Jaun Sanchez
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Fantastic flight. Fantastic footage 👏 👌 Lovely video 👍 ❤
A wonderful video with wonderful detailed narration. A with great aerial capture. Keep up the great work thanks for sharing.
@user-je3zi9bi8d Wow, thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it. 🤗
Thank you for the memories. We visited there this time last year. I love the living history of Britain 🇬🇧
@karynhitchman2498 Thank you, Karyn, I'm glad it brought you back to a happy time there. I also love our historic past, and I've done quite a few videos of our great English heritage if you'd like to check them out @youtube.com/@doccolvideo?si=aDbSstkiFAvM5WvG 👍
@@DocColVideo awesome, I'm going to check them out 🌸
Great how you flew toward the castle ..Great music piece ..
Cheers matey, you got to love the National Trust. 😁
Fantastic video Colin love how good the place looks and the grounds brilliant bit of history ❤👏👏🎥👍
@jimthorleydronefootage Cheers, Jim. I filmed it in the Spring and almost forgot to publish it! Glad you liked it 👍
Croft Castle is a National Trust property in Herefordshire. A great place to visit with walks in its large grounds.
Awesome video 👊😎 fantastic castle 👌 thanks for sharing
@MoonRabbitFPV Wow. Cheers matey. 🤗
Very nice footage
@@HikeFly22 Thx matey. ❤️
Fantastic footage! Great editing made it even better. Nice work!
@stunningdrone Thanks John. I almost forgot to release it, after I came back from my hols! 🤣
Nice one Col.
@ColRose Cheers, Col mate. Glad u liked it. 🤗
Wonderful video and love the narration. We haven't visited here but one to add to the list when we are in the area. Looks very impressive inside and out. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
@inbetween-days Thanks, guys . You'll love it.
A well put together video Colin. I know from experience, putting a narration down on the video sounds easier than it is. Nice mix on interior hand held shots and aerial drone filming. 🙂👏🏻👍🏻
@AMDronephotography Thanks, matey. I'm glad you liked it and appreciate your encouraging comments. 🤗❤️
nice shots mate well done great location 👍
Thx mate. Filmed it months ago in the Spring. Great place to visit. 👍
Great footage Colin on the ground and in the air, and im shocked to hear that at one point
someone had the balls to say they only wanted the land and not the castle, the National
trust are a sticklers for no fly zones over there land, but at least the Castle now survives,
PS great Narration 😉. 👏👍🎥😎.
@Steve53 Cheers, Steve, I TOALed outside their map boundary line. I've been challenged before by NT volunteers, and I pointed out their own recent policy change that recognises they don't own the airspace. 🤗😆
@@DocColVideo well said Col👍
such a good edit!
@onemandrone Thanks, matey, I love editing. 🤗
Awesome video. Looks a beautiful place. Well narrated too.
@SimonsDroneChannel Thanks Simon, much appreciated mate. 🤗
@@DocColVideo any time.
Hi Colin great video and narrative history about Chirk Castle also brilliant drone and the interior shots of this place,can you tell where you took the drone up from we drove past this the other day and want to do it but i cannot find a flight path Claire {Historic Adventures}.
Thank you. The park is huge so you could TOAL in quieter spots without interference, but if you didn't want to fall foul of the NT byelaw, there is a lane opposite the exit on the B4362 (a spotter is best used from here), and there are public paths to the East and North West that gives you right of access as well. Good luck 😉