Dobroyd Castle

Dobroyd Castle is a historical constructing above the metropolis of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England. It changed into constructed for John Fielden, nearby mill owner and son of Honest John Fielden the Social Reformer and MP. The constructing has had a numerous past. First constructed as an extravagant mansion house, then it was used as a college, it then became a Buddhist Retreat centre and the building is presently used as an Activity Centre for Primary School Groups.

The citadel has 66 rooms and is Grade II listed. In the mid 19th century, Todmorden changed into a booming, successful cotton town. It is on this putting that rich industrialist, John Fielden fell in love with local worker, Ruth Stansfield and asked her to be his wife. It is regularly said that her reply changed into that she could marry him if he built her a castle. Whether or now not that become stated, the couple married in 1857 and in due path a fortress changed into constructed.

Fielden commissioned prestigious architect, John Gibson to design and build the Castle among 1866 and 1869 at a fee of £71,589. John and Ruth Fielden lived inside the Castle but the couple became step by step remote and estranged, a Swiss chalet become constructed inside the valley bottom for Ruth and it's miles said that she have become an alcoholic. Ruth died in 1877, just 8 years after the citadel's of entirety. John died within the fort in 1893. After his dying, the Castle stayed inside the Fielden own family but became used once in a while and became subsequently offered for £10,000.