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Ogle is a village in Northumberland, England, in the parish of Whalton,
north-west of Ponteland and south-west of Morpeth. The surname Ogle
comes from here, where the Ogle family built Ogle Castle and owned
Kirkley Hall.
Ogle Castle is a former fortified manor house and is a Scheduled Ancient
Monument and a Grade I listed building. The moated site on the bank of
the Ogle Burn presents the remains of a medieval tower incorporated into
a 16th century manor. Licence to crenellate the manor was granted to
Robert Ogle in 1341.
William the Conqueror granted a deed to Humphrey de
Hoggell (Ogle) to enjoy all the liberties and royalties of his manor
after the conquest.[1] The Ogle family held the estate from before the
Norman Conquest until 1597 when it passed by marriage to the Cavendish
family and later to Hollis.
Kirkley Hall is a 17th century historic country mansion and Grade II
listed building situated on the bank of the River Blyth, which is now a
Horticultural and Agricultural training centre.
The manor of Kirkley was granted to the de Eure family in 1267 and Sir
William Eure was recorded as in occupation of a tower house there in
1415. In the early 17th century the manor came into the ownership of the
Ogle family and in 1632 Cuthbert Ogle built a new manor house close to
the site of the old house. Substantial alterations were made to the
structure in 1764 by Rev Newton Ogle (1726-1804), Dean of Winchester
Cathedral, who also in 1788 erected an obelisk in the grounds
commemorating the accession of William and May in 1689. The house was
substantially rebuilt by Rev John Saville Ogle in about 1832.
The Ogles disposed of their Kirkley estates in 1922.
The Hall which
passed to Sir William Noble (later Lord Kirkley) was damaged by fire in
1929 and largely rebuilt by him on a somewhat reduced scale. In 1946 the
estate was acquired by the Northumberland County Council and in 1951
Kirkley Hall Farm Institute was established. In 1999 the estate became
the land studies campus of Northumberland College.
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