Qualla: Treago Castle https://qualla.com/treago-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Treago Castle https://qualla.com/treago-castle Treago Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/treago-castle/ The Mynors family bought a piece of land in the Herefordshire parish of St Weonards around 1500, built a small fortified manor on it, and have lived in the same house ever since. Five hundred years of unbroken family occupation is unusual anywhere. In England it is approaching unique. The building they raised, Treago Castle, is a Grade I listed quadrangle of pale stone, four corner towers, no windows facing outward in the original design, a defensible little block of Tudor anxiety thrown up just in case the Welsh decided to come over the border. They never did. The castle never came under attack. So the family kept extending it, opening windows in the outside walls, covering over the central courtyard, planting roses, putting in a swimming pool, and in due course converting the stables into self-catering holiday cottages. Today they make their own sparkling wine.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/p/treago-castle-wp/gcnp-treago-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Treago Castle: A Defensible Square https://qualla.com/treago-castle/ The name Treago is half Welsh: "Tre" means homestead or farm, "Ago" comes from Iago, the Welsh form of James. There had been a Welsh-named dwelling on this ground before the present house went up. Around 1500 the Mynors family demolished it and built afresh, in a tight quadrangle...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/p/treago-castle-wp/gcnp-treago-castle-a-defensible-square.mp3 0:06 2 full Treago Castle: The Mynors Continuity https://qualla.com/treago-castle/ The Mynors are not aristocracy in the dukes-and-marquesses sense. They are something more interesting: a country gentry family who simply refused to let go of their house. Some Mynors records reach back to the eleventh century, though the direct association with St Weonards is do...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/p/treago-castle-wp/gcnp-treago-castle-the-mynors-continuity.mp3 0:06 3 full Treago Castle: A Quiet Park, Slowly Replanted https://qualla.com/treago-castle/ Around the castle, the eighteenth century landscape was a typical English parkland, neat and pastoral, then largely forgotten between 1790 and 1840 as fortunes shifted and family attention drifted. From the 1840s onward, four big projects rebuilt it. A walled garden was set near ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/p/treago-castle-wp/gcnp-treago-castle-a-quiet-park-slowly-replanted.mp3 0:06 4 full Treago Castle: Wine, Wheels, and a Steam Engine https://qualla.com/treago-castle/ In 1932 the Great Western Railway named one of its Castle Class locomotives, No. 5019, Treago Castle. The engine ran the network for thirty years before being withdrawn in 1962. The naming was hardly coincidence: Treago was a working country estate then as it is now. The original...

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