Wothorpe Towers

Listed Building:

Ruins of a house built circa 1600 for Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter, Lorn Burghley’s eldest son. Built of ashlar faced rubble.

It was briefly occupied by Royalists in the Civil War and later partly demolished and allowed to decay.

See Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire

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