Broughton Castle

The ancestral home of the Fiennes family

 

Open 2pm-5pm Wednesdays, Sundays and
Bank Holiday Mondays April 2nd 2025
to 28th September 2025
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Broughton Castle

Broughton Castle is a moated and fortified manor house near Banbury in North Oxfordshire. Set in parkland and built of the rich local Hornton ironstone, it was selected by Simon Jenkins as one of only twenty to be awarded five stars in his book England’s Thousand Best Houses.

The core of the house was built in 1306 and the gatehouse in the early fifteenth century, but most of what you see today dates from the 1550’s. It was a centre of opposition to Charles I and was besieged and damaged after the Battle of Edgehill in 1642.

Broughton castle is the home of Martin Fiennes (22nd Lord Saye & Sele) and his family. The ownership of the Castle has been in the family in the female line since 1377, and in the male line since 1447.

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Broughton Castle is 2.5 miles from the centre of Banbury, 3 miles from Junction 11 of the M40.

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Broughton Castle has been selected for a wide range of film shoots, including feature films, TV dramas, TV commercials as well as fashion and other photo shoots.

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