Chillingham Castle in Northumberland has a reputation. This was the base camp for Edward Longshanks as he struck north to attack Braveheart William Wallace,  who had burned people to death locally.  A window was added in King Edward’s honour, through which you can still look over the landscape.  Containing a genuine torture chamber, and with skeletons discovered buried in the walls, this is a beautiful but forbidding place.  In later years Elizabethans added long galleries and Capability Brown designed the gardens.  The castle became a stately home with it’s moat filled and wings added.

After total but sensitive renovation, returning much of the castle to it’s 12th century configuration, it is now the home of Sir Humprhy Wakefield and a popular tourist destination and wedding venue.  The Wakefield crest contains a bat, hence the huge bat weathervane on the battlements.  The castle also contains lovely self-catering apartments in the castle (and for the more faint-hearted in the Victorian additions).

Courses we are running in 2010 -

DSLR Photography Made Simple, Monday 10th May

Ghost Photography, Monday 10th May

DSLR Photography Made Simple, Monday 5th July

Ghost Photography, Monday 5th July

More details about the ghost photography course will follow – Chillingham is a genuinely ghostly place and if you can’t capture ghosts there you can’t do it anywhere!

To find and book the date you’re interested in please click here.

Thanks to the Wakefield family for allowing us to hold photography courses at Chillingham Castle.