Wanna Buy a Castle?
Just down the road from Syntagma Towers stands the oldest surviving castle in the UK. It’s called Rougemont, which means Red Hill after the iron-rich Devon soil. The French name indicates it was built by the Normans around 1070. Here’s a picture of the old entrance gate I took this morning :
Don’t you love those cannons?
The interesting thing about it, and why I’m inflicting this on you on a Sunday, is that it’s up for sale.
As regular readers may know, we’ve been contemplating the purchase of a new Syntagma Towers later this year. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
It would be the office address to die for :
Syntagma Towers
Rougemont Castle
England.
And can you imagine the business card?
So, what about the internet connection? Does that date back to 1070 too? Knights on horseback maybe? Think again. It has some very smart modern administrative buildings where the keep used to be.
I’m warming to the idea already.
I can feel the warmth from here, John. Would a tenner help?
By Steve Newman on April 29th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Any contributions gratefully received, Steve. And we may even engrave the names of contributors on individual stones. Think of the prestige.
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