{"id":769,"date":"2009-10-21T16:36:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castle.nicuilie.eu\/?p=769"},"modified":"2014-05-31T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T20:13:32","slug":"bolsover-castle-chesterfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/bolsover-castle-chesterfield\/10\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsover Castle (Chesterfield)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cetate.inturism.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Bolsover_Derby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"558\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/charles_spencer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/10\/charles_spencer.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"81,77\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"charles_spencer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/10\/charles_spencer.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/10\/charles_spencer.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-558\" title=\"Bolsover_Derby\" src=\"http:\/\/cetate.inturism.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Bolsover_Derby-523x392.jpg\" alt=\"Bolsover_Derby\" width=\"523\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Derbyshire; in early 17th century Charles Cavendish had a country house built on the site of a Norman castle, and he wanted the house look like a castle, even though it was never meant to be used for any military purposes. The house was occupied during the Civil War in 1645 by the Parlamentary army who wanted to demolish the whole building and did much damage. After the war the Cavendish family wanted to repair the house, but due to the lack of funds the house was eventually abandoned and being plundered for building materials and furniture. After the WW2 the site was handed over to the Ministry of Works, and heavy engineering works were started to save the house, which was extensively restored by the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cetate.inturism.info\/543\/bolsover-castle-derbyshire\/\">Photos from Bolsover<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derbyshire; in early 17th century Charles Cavendish had a country house built on the site of a Norman castle, and he wanted the house look like a castle, even though it was never meant to be used for any military purposes. The house was occupied during the Civil War in 1645 by the Parlamentary army&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/bolsover-castle-chesterfield\/10\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bolsover Castle (Chesterfield)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[28,32,127,277,278,317,341,470,514,541,603,682,683,806,807,935,995,1042,1243,1390,1466,1471,2118,2263],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-kingdom","tag-17th-century","tag-1990s","tag-army","tag-bolsover","tag-bolsover-castle","tag-british-castles","tag-building-materials","tag-cavendish-family","tag-chesterfield","tag-civil-war","tag-country-house","tag-derby","tag-derbyshire","tag-engineering-works","tag-england","tag-furniture","tag-great-castles","tag-heavy-engineering","tag-leeds","tag-military-purposes","tag-norman-castle","tag-normans","tag-uk","tag-ww2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IfKt-cp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":575,"url":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/bolsover-castle\/10\/","url_meta":{"origin":769,"position":0},"title":"Bolsover Castle","author":"hrnicu","date":"October 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Raised by the Peverel family in the 12thcentury, very little is known of the original castle at Bolsover. 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