Bronsil Castle was a fortified manor house

Manor house

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 about 1 miles (1.6 km) to the east of Eastnor

Eastnor, Herefordshire

Eastnor is a village in Herefordshire, England, east of Ledbury. Eastnor Castle is nearby, and named after the village.St John's Church was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1852.-External links:...

 in Herefordshire

Herefordshire

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, England

England

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 near Ledbury

Ledbury

Ledbury is a town in Herefordshire, England, lying east of Hereford, and south of the Malvern Hills.Today, Ledbury is a thriving market town in rural England. The town has a large number of timber framed buildings, in particular along Church Lane and High Street. One of Ledbury's most outstanding...

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The first record of Bronsil Castle is around 1240 but no description of the structure at that time is given. In 1449 and again in 1460 Richard Beauchamp, Treasurer to Henry VI

Henry VI of England

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, was given licence to crenellate his house on the site. In 1644 during the Civil War

English Civil War

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 it was taken by the Roundheads and then burnt.

Today little remains except for remains of the tower and part of this collapsed in 1990.