Walton Castle
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Attribution: By Rodw - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9943636
Walton Castle is a 17th Century castle set upon a hill in Clevedon on the site of an earlier Iron Age hill fort.
In 1979, Sir William Miles's daughter and his son-in-law, Martin Sessions-Hodge, spent £100,000 and over a year restoring the ruin into a five-bedroom, three-bathroom house.
In 1979, Sir William Miles's daughter and his son-in-law, Martin Sessions-Hodge, spent £100,000 and over a year restoring the ruin into a five-bedroom, three-bathroom house.
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