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| | New Statesman - National distrust |
 | | The victorious Roundheads pulled it down; the walls were so thick that its destruction was probably one of the 17th century's greatest feats of civil engineering, although if they had waited only 50 years, developments in weapons technology would have rendered the castle strategically redundant. |
 | | After the Restoration, the Bankes family built their new home 15 miles north-east, at Kingston Lacy, near Wimborne, where the contours of the Dorset hills are softer and of no strategic importance. |
 | | Kingston Lacy has been "restored to its Edwardian heyday", but has lost much of its magic, though I was pleased to find a picture of Ralph, whom I never knew. |
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