A brief history of Dunster, Part One

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A brief history of Dunster, Part One

On the edge of Exmoor, Somersetshire, as it has for at least 700 years, this blurry castle overlooks the small village of Dunster. The castle stood well before that: records go back to the Norman invasion of 1066. It is unusual in that only two families have owned it since that time, the Mohans from 1066 to 1376 and the Lutrells from then until 1976, when the National Trust appropriated the castle and opened it to the public. One wonders if they intended to take over earlier and waited to give the Lutrells an even 600 years, or if they were gaping jealously across the pond at the American bicentennial celebration and suddenly desired their own event of import, having lost their share in that party to one G. Washington and his low-class comrades sometime around the Lutrells' tetracentennial.

Source: The Slocum Family Project, http://www.slocombe.freeservers.com/index.html