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Good articleFarleigh Hungerford Castle has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic starFarleigh Hungerford Castle is part of the English Heritage properties in Somerset series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
August 25, 2011Good article nomineeListed
July 9, 2015Good topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 3, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that when Farleigh Hungerford Castle (gateway pictured) was fortified from an existing manor house between 1370 and 1380, it was done without the appropriate "licence to crenellate" from the king?
Current status: Good article

Infobox

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I've reverted the changes by the unregistered user. As a fortified manor, it is debatable whether or not it is a "military structure" in any sense - probably not. But it is undoubtedly a historic site, and so in my view the infobox should use that template. No-one "owns" this article, and if the IP engages in further editing it would be helpful if they (1) discuss contentious changes here first, and (2) use correct grammar. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:44, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this. I created the original article (& would agree no one "owns" it). I used the (new) infobox historic site as it enables and encourages the listing of it's Grade I listed building status - which is part of the basis for Notability (and is the reason why I put this info in the lede). I don't think either infobox is more "correct" than the other and invite discussion of the rationale which makes infobox military structure more appropriate than the current one (I had already put this invitation to discuss on the talk page of the unregistered user who originally made the change).— Rod talk 14:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As a fortified manor house (ie: the owner was granted license to crenellate) it is technically a castle, although it iss not worth arguing about whether it's a castle or not here and would be too difficult to do as academics sometimes can't decide. In this case I don't think either is "wrong" as the IP insists, and each have their own merits. The military infobox does provide more information than the current historic site infobox, however, it does not include information such as being a Grade I listed building. Are there fields available in Template:infobox historic site sor stuff like client, construction materials, and current ownership? On the other hand, where did information such as height come from?
Just to further muddy the waters, my own preference is to use {{Infobox Historic building}} :-) Nev1 (talk) 15:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Early history

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The description of the early history needs some attention. It says a manor house was built in the 14th Century but granted to the Montfort family by William Rufus (ie in the 11th Century). Is there perhaps confusion between a manor and a manor house? Manor houses (at least grand ones) are a late medieval concept. The Wikilink on Montfort family points to the barony (which doesn't look relevant) rather than the family (presumably Simon de Montfort and his kin?). Cyclopaedic (talk) 08:05, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion

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I've gone through and expanded the article; I've drawn on the latest works that I could find, and think the article now covers the academic range pretty well. A couple of minor points:

  • Kightly and Jackson disagree about the ownership around 1730; I've gone with Jackon, partially because there are on-line documentary sources backing him up (I haven't put these in the article, because of OR), but noted the dispute in a note.
  • I removed the suggested height of the castle walls, mainly because I couldn't find any reliable source backing up the figures.

It could probably do with a copy edit after the expansion. Hchc2009 (talk) 18:57, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Canon Jackson made a huge investment of time in Farleigh, so I imagine he is more likely than Kightly to have it right. Many congratulations on your expansion! Moonraker (talk) 18:22, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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