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Relhan Collection : 338 Castle Camps

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Copied from Buck 1730 </p><p>Labelled ‘Camps Castle’. Added to list by Ethel Fegan 1935. This was copied from the engraving by Simon and Nathaniel Buck of 1730 entitled ‘The North-East View of Camp’s Castle in the County of Cambridge.’ and coloured. The Norman castle was granted to de Vere, Earl of Oxford, by William the Conqueror and was held by the family until late C16. The circular keep was c.1068, with brick tower and house added late C16. It was bought 1607 by a financier, Thomas Sutton, who left it to his foundation of London Charterhouse. Most of the great house fell down 1738, and Charterhouse built a smaller farm-house which incorporated a fragment of the earlier building in a back wing. Earthworks of the castle and the village that surrounded it survive today.</p><p>VCH 1978; Watkin 1981</p></p>

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