After reading Alison Williams’ extremely interesting “A Witchcraft Tour of England’ post (which you can find here) I decided to check out one of the places I’d never seen and actually knew nothing about. Rougemont Castle in Exeter. The castle was built on a small hill and the name Rougemont came from the Norman French rouge mont, meaning red hill, because of its red volcanic rock.
Only the castle walls and gatehouse, which you can walk round, remain, but nevertheless when I see something like this…
especially since reading Alison’s book The Black Hours, I get chills imagining what could, and more than likely did, happen on the other side of those bars. The so-called witches, Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards, Mary Trembles and Alice Molland were the last to be tried here. They were found guilty and executed. This plaque is by the gatehouse.
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Really lovely to read this, great place to check out.
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Thanks Rosie, it’s just a pity there’s not more of it left to see.
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Great post Cathy – lovely that you actually went there. Those little barred windows always send a shiver up my spine…
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Thanks, Alison. I can’t believe the number of times I go to Exeter and didn’t know it was there!
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Thanks so much for the reblog, Alison 🙂
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A great post about Rougemont Castle where you’ll find a plaque remembering the last ‘witches’ to be executed in England.
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Amazing Story – Wonderful Journey!
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Thank you, Mihrank 🙂
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This is fab! And ‘Temperance Lloyd’ – I want to be called Temperance Tyler!!!!
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Thanks, Terry or should I say Temperance 😉
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Loved reading this. You photos are amazing.
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This is great post and your pictures are wonderful. Makes me miss Britain a little more (and I already miss it a lot). 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 Hope you get to visit again soon
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