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Durdle Door from the eastern side of the estate. The Lulworth Estate is a country estate located in central south Dorset, England. Its most notable landscape feature is a five-mile stretch of coastline on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, including Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove. The historic estate includes the Lulworth Castle and park ...
The Weld family & Lulworth. Wareham: Lulworth Castle. 2004. Newth, John. "One of Dorset’s grandest and most interesting country houses - The history of Lulworth Castle is bound up with the stories of the Weld family and of one of the most important estates in South Dorset. John Newth has been to visit.". Dorset Life, April 2015.
Colonel Sir Joseph William Weld, OBE, TD (1909-1992), was Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, a British army officer and landowner.A direct descendant of Sir Humphrey Weld (died 1610), and member of a noted recusant family, he became owner of the Lulworth Estate and Lulworth Castle in Dorset, in 1935 after the death of his cousin, Herbert Weld Blundell.
John was the son of Sir Humphrey Weld, citizen and Grocer, who derived from Eaton, Cheshire, and his first wife, Ann Wheler. [1] [2] His mother dying, his father remarried to Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Stephen Slaney (Lord Mayor in 1595-96) and relict of Richard Bradgate (died 1589), both citizens and Skinners, who so became his stepmother.
Lulworth is the popular name for an area on the coast of Dorset, South West England notable for its castle and However, there is no actual place or feature called simply "Lulworth", the villages are East and West Lulworth and the coastal feature is Lulworth Cove.
Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, southern England. The cove is one of the world's finest examples of such a landform , and is a World Heritage Site and tourist location with approximately 500,000 [ 1 ] visitors every year, of whom about 30 per cent visit in July and August. [ 2 ]
Bookplate in the Luttrell Psalter showing crest and ownership of Thomas Weld. British Library. As the new owner of Lulworth Castle and the Lulworth Estate, Thomas Weld, who until then had been living with his wife in Britwell in Oxfordshire, refurbished the interiors of the "castle" in the then fashionable Adam style.
Born at East Lulworth, Weld was the third and oldest surviving son of Humphrey Weld (died 1722) of Lulworth Castle, a great-nephew of Humphrey Weld, a Member of parliament who in 1641 had bought the Lulworth Estate on the Jurassic Coast. [1] His mother was Margaret Simeons, a daughter of Sir James Simeons of Chilworth.