Belvoir Castle

Belvoir Castle BEE-vər) is a historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated 10 km west of the town of Grantham and 16 km north-east of Melton Mowbray. The Castle was first built immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and has since been rebuilt at least three times, the surviving structure, a grade I listed building, dating from the early 19th century. It is the seat of David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland , whose direct male ancestor inherited it in 1508. His secondary seat is Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. The traditional burial place of the Manners family was in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford, situated 5 km to the north of the Castle, but since 1825 they have been buried in the ducal mausoleum built next to the Castle in that year, to which their ancient monuments were moved. It remains the private property of the Duke of Rutland but is open to the general public.

The castle is situated at the extreme northerly corner of the county of Leicestershire and is sandwiched between Lincolnshire to the east and Nottinghamshire at west, and overlooks the Vale of Belvoir to the north-west on the Nottinghamshire border. It is surrounded by the villages of Redmile, Woolsthorpe, Knipton, Harston, Harlaxton, Croxton Kerrial and Bottesford. The Antiquarian John Leland stated: "the Castle stands on the very nape of a high hill, steep up each way, partly by nature, partly by the working of men's hands." The 15,000 acre Belvoir estate, situated in the heart of England's prime fox-hunting terrain, is the headquarters of the famous Belvoir Hunt , established in 1750 and now kennelled 1 km south-east of the Castle.

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