Ogle Castle

The village of Ogle is about 20mins out of Newcastle. It is comprised of about twenty houses, and no shops - not even a pub! The Lady of the castle was out when I visited, so I only got to have a look at the front, but that was enough. It is a very pretty looking manor house, with ivy and a gravel driveway lined with trees. There are horses in nearby fields, as well as various other forms of livestock. The coat of arms on the iron gates is very familiar.

The Manor

The village of Whalton, where the church for the area (and the pub, which was my original goal) is located, is 1.5 miles (a long walk!) away down a single-track road. The church has all sorts of distingushed-seeming Ogles buried there; you can tell we were important because there are plaques to said ancestors right up the front, inside the church.