Armadale
The Castle included lavish interiors with arcaded public halls and a great marble staircase.
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In the Macdonald family moved to a smaller house, leaving the castle to the wind and rain. By this time the west part of the Castle was derelict, and in the decision was taken to demolish the building while saving as many remnants as possible. The ruined Castle is currently unstable so is fenced off for your safety. Visitors can still enjoy magnificent views framed by the romantic ruin. We are working on plans to stabilise the structure to enable full access. Parts of the garden date back to the s, when the original mansion house was built. Substantial remodelling took place in the s when the area in front of the new Castle building was levelled to enhance the fine views across to the mainland.
The Gothic bridge, a Historic Environment Scotland designated monument, was built in The woodland gardens include many remarkable specimen trees, mostly planted in the s.
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More recently developed areas such as the ponds, herbaceous borders and terrace walks provide a tranquil place to sit or stroll. Dotted throughout the grounds are a number of interesting sculptures.
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A number of famous historical figures have visited Armadale over the years. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell visited in The Castle, Gardens and wider estate were purchased by the Clan Donald Lands Trust in the s so that everyone could enjoy this wonderful resource.
In front there is a grand prospect of the rude mountains of Moidart and Knoidart. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the s: In the German spa town of Wildbad , the 'Scotchman' Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale; his story concerns his murder of the man he had disinherited also called Allan Armadale , who had subsequently married the woman he was betrothed to under false pretensions.
Under Allan's instructions, the confession is left to be opened by his son once he comes of age.
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Nineteen years later, the son of the murdered man, also Allan Armadale, rescues a man of his own age—Ozias Midwinter. The stranger reveals himself to Reverend Decimus Brock, a friend of Allan through his late mother, as another Allan Armadale the son of the man who committed the murder.
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Ozias tells Decimus of his desperate upbringing, having run away from his mother and stepfather Mr. The Reverend promises not to disclose their relation to one another, and the young men become close companions. Ozias remains haunted by a fear that he will harm Allan as a result of their proximity, a fate warned of in his father's letter; this feeling intensifies when the pair spend a night on a shipwreck off the Isle of Man—as it turns out, the very ship on which the murder was committed.
Also on the vessel, Allan has a mysterious dream involving three characters; Ozias believes that the events are a prophecy of the future. Three members of Allan's family die in mysterious circumstances, one of which was instigated in the rescue of a woman who attempted to commit suicide by drowning. As a result, Allan inherits the estate of Thorpe-Ambrose in Norfolk and relocates there with Ozias, intending to make him steward.
Once there he falls in love with Eleanor Neelie Milroy, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Major Milroy, to whom he has rented a cottage.
During this time, correspondence takes place between Maria Oldershaw and Lydia Gwilt concerning the latter's ambitions to marry Allan as a means of achieving retribution for his family's apparent wrongdoings she was originally a maid in the service of his mother. Lydia, who is thirty-five but looks twenty-something, is the villain of the novel and her colourful portrayal takes up much of the rest of the story.
Originally Allan's mother's maid, and a contributor to the conflict between Allan's and Ozias's fathers, she is a fortune-hunter and, it turns out, a murderess. Unable to alienate Allan's affections from Miss Milroy, she settles for marrying Midwinter, having discovered his name is the same.
She plots to murder Allan—or to have him killed by her ex-lover, a Cuban desperado—and, since she is now "Mrs.
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Armadale," to impersonate his widow. Allan escapes the desperado's attempt on his life—he is supposed to have drowned in a shipwreck—and returns to England. Lydia's plans are thus foiled.