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Just inside the gates of St Mary's Churchyard is the charming Jacobean school building, which was in use until 1908 and is now the parish hall. It was founded in 1628, as can be seen in this photograph of its commemorative plaque.
This is an outer section of the castle on the extreme west. The buildings (all except the farthest one) were powder magazines and later storehouses. The last building is a modern one, which houses the tapestry studio for visitors to the castle. You can walk right along the battlements around this area.
Well over a hundred years old, the farms would have bought the cattle down and blocked the river with wood slotted into groove in the stone wall (can be seen below the tree).
The cattle were the pushed in, cleaned and bought up the ramp we can see in the foreground.
It would be likely that humans drew water from the same areas? Sanitisation standards were somewhat different over a hundred years ago.