Senior Moments Answer has 3 votes. Some sites have different spellings of the name but agree that the castle is named after its first owner Led, Leed or Ledian who was the Chief Minister of the King of Kent. He constructed a wooden stronghold on the two small islands in a lake formed by the River Len. Had heard of the link with some character of the name of Led. Only it does not seem to be confirmed by scholarly research. Friar Tuck Answer has 2 votes. I should know better especially as I live nearby, you are quite right Flemish that some of the well known tomes suggest that the name derives from the village nearby and that names derives from that of the brook on which it lies, in turn representing a conjectural Old English word hlyde umlaut over the y which means 'loud one'.
Having been born in Kent and living a few miles from the Castle for over 27 years I can only say that I had possibly accepted one explanation as being the correct one and had thought that the village came later as it was quite common for villages to be built near castles.
South-East from Maidstone.. The etymology of Leeds in West-Yorkshire is quite different. The River Airze near Leeds was called the river Lat in medieval times. Lat is a word of Celtic origin and means flooding. Venerable Bede mentiobns Leeds as Loidis in eight century.
The Yorkshire Leeds stands for: 'place of the people who live by the River Lat'. Same explanation can be given for Ledsham and Ledston near Leeds, Yorkshire.
As to Led.. I think the tourist brochure published for Leeds Castle does link the name to somebody of that name.
Seems to be a dispute between historians and linguists. Edward II was not amused and successfully lay siege to the castle.
Six years later Edward was murdered but Queen Isabella kept the castle until she died in Elizabeth I was imprisoned here for a time before her coronation. Purchased by the Culpeper family the castle avoided destruction during the English Civil War as the Culpeper family sided with the Parliamentarians.
Later the castle was used to house French and Dutch prisoners of war. The last owner of Leeds Castle was the indomitable Lady Baillie who bought the castle in and employed French interior designers to transform her new home.
She dedicated most of her life to the improvement of the castle and was responsible for setting up the Leeds Castle Foundation. The castle was opened to the public in Today, visitors come from all around the world to view this magnificent castle set in over acres of landscaped parkland with its maze, grotto, waterfowl, aviaries, and vineyard.
The maze is particularly popular with the secret grotto at the centre. Stay overnight in the beautiful setting of Leeds Castle and enjoy strolling around the castle grounds and gardens when the estate is closed to the general public. Houses of the Gentry, Yale University Press. Fry, P. S Castles of the British Isles. David and Charles. Goodall, J The English Castle Harris, E The Siege of Leeds Castle.
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Pettifer, A English Castles, A guide by counties. Boydell Press, Woodbridge. Thurley, S The Royal Palaces of Tudor England. Timbs, J and Gunn, A Wykeham Martin, C Leeds Castle is a major tourist attraction and is marketed as the "loveliest castle in the world".
It certainly is set in a picturesque environment with its remains representing many hundreds of years of modification and upgrades. Leeds Castle. The castle is surrounded by a large pool of water fed by the River Len. Kent Castle Plan. The castle was built on top of two islands. The smaller one was entirely dominated by the Keep whilst the larger one to the south-west was enclosed by a curtain wall and formed the bailey.
The castle was acquired by Queen Eleanor of Castile in and she transformed the site into a palace. In particular she rebuilt the Keep into a luxurious residence called the Gloriette. The bailey occupied the larger of the two islands. Originally its curtain wall abutted the waterline but land was later recovered to create what is today the flower garden.
The barbican incorporated a mill that was powered from the flow of the River Len. It was accessed through the barbican and would originally have had a drawbridge. New Castle. The New Castle was built in the s replacing earlier medieval buildings. It was designed by William Baskett in a mock-Tudor style. Twelfth Century Castle. Little remains of the twelfth century castle other than the cellar and a window in the Banqueting Hall.
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