A trip to Fotheringhay
In February this year we decided to have a day out to see the village of Fotheringhay. This pretty village has a very interesting church St Mary's and All Saints, and a castle of which very little is left. Fotheringhay lies only 10 miles west of Peterborough. The church is the burial site of Richard Duke of York who died at the battle of Wakefield, during the Wars of the Roses in 1460. Every year on Richard III's birthday the Richard III Society place white roses in the church. I had my new camera, the infrared converted Nikon D3200 with me and so all these pictures are infrared, some given false cloud by channel swopping in Photoshop. One is shown in both versions. The castle is a short walk from the church, but little remains except the motte which overlooks the River Nene. It is though to have been built around 1100 and was demolished around 1635, after it had fallen into disrepair. It had been a favoured residence of the Dukes of York and Richard III was ...