Castle Head, Grange-over-Sands

Castle Head is a country house surrounded by 20 acres (81,000 m2) of grounds near to the seaside resort of Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, England.

It is run by Field Studies Council, and is a Grade II listed building.

[1] The house was built in the Georgian style for John Wilkinson, an industrialist, in 1778 (247 years ago) (1778).

[3] The house was then acquired by Robert Wright, a solicitor, but lay empty under his ownership for some 30 years, before being bought in 1863 by Edward Mucklow, a Manchester businessman.

[4] The house went on to serve as St Mary's Missionary College, a seminary owned by the Holy Ghost Fathers, from the early 20th century until it closed in the late 1970s.