Showing posts with label Dowsing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dowsing. Show all posts

29 December 2011

Madingley and William Dowsing

An engraving by Kip of Madingley Hall in 1705. Credit: University of Cambridge

I enjoyed this blog post by Adrian Barlow about Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, during the English Civil War.

The Hynde family who built the Hall were committed Royalists, as were the Stewkeleys of Hinton Ampner, who inherited the estate, though their allegiance to the King would eventually bring them to the attention of a notorious iconoclast ...