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1353–1400), called the "English father of the science of artillery fortification" by B.H. St John O'Neil. A fourteenth-century chip-carved chest with arcading and rosettes along the front, with a later panelled top, formerly in the parish church, was reputed to have come originally from
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subsequently lived there. In 1971–2, Lord Clark employed John King to construct a bungalow, The Garden House, at the edge of the moat, as a residence for him and his wife. After Alan Clark's death he was buried in the grounds of the castle, which remains in the Clark family today.
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in 1170. By the 19th century, it was "largely ruinous" and restorations to make portions of the castle habitable were carried out in the 1880s and 1930s. In the late 19th century, the castle was bought by an ancestor of
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implements and copper ingots discovered in Hayne's Wood, 1874, show the site had already long been inhabited.
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427:Henry VIII
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301:New Forest
285:Canterbury
258:Bronze Age
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208:Henry VIII
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