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Marshmount Estate Trust Limited

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METL, the Marshmount Estate Trust Ltd., was established in 1913 when the last known member of the ancient Marshmount family disappeared while on safari in Tanganyika. Its purpose was, and is, to maintain the feudal estates, which include several castles, in perpetuity or until such time as an heir shall appear, or be appointed by the Monarch. In 1997, the heir was found and acknowledged, and he is determined that the Trust shall continue, albeit with more aggressive management.

Originally, this web site consisted of a guide to Marshmount Castle on space provided by Grobius Shortling (who has connections with the castle and compiled the guide). Later, a web page about Guichardo's Folly within the castle was added. This was followed by items relating to Seth Pottlebury, who has been acclaimed as the inheritor of the Estate. A web page about Upchuck Lodge in Scotland was posted next. Various sub-pages, such as this one, were put in when the Marshmount Castle pages were moved to GeoCities. More recently (August 1998), a guide to Gwernogle Castle (Nant-y-Gof Bwlch) in Wales was created for this site. And in August 1999, we acquired the feudal rights to the Isle of Farnish and founded a travel agency.

As of August 26, 1999, Marshmount Estates is now a DOMAIN (i.e., we have a dot.com, which is of course marshmount.com). Big time, eh? This site will be expanding considerably in the future, especially if more of you come and visit on the Internet.

Please return to this web site from time to time, as there are sure to be more changes as the METL expands its activities. Check here for announcements. If you prefer a frames format, check out one of the two versions for this site: Frame-1 or Frame-2.

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    New Ventures

  • The Isle of Farnish
    (We don't know why this fascinating island in the Irish Sea is pretty much unknown; Grobius Shortling's posting of Porpentinus Cripplewort's monograph about this place on the Internet in 1996 drew very little attention. However, having come into feudal rights to the hegemony of the island, we have upgraded the web site and intend to do more in the future.)
  • Travail-Aid Tours
    (A new and interesting travel agency, includes our own sites naturally, but also some unusual tourist spots.)
  • Almondsey
    (Almondsey, which used to be located between Norway and Atlantis, sank out of sight several years ago; however, the remains of a novel by Celius Shortling Sr. survived in Guichardo's library -- and, of course, the Marshmounts at some point had some influence in that place.)
  • Hag's Nook (Chatterham Prison)
    (METL is in the final process of purchasing this fine old 18th-Century prison in Lincolnshire, which was the setting for John Dickson Carr's excellent detective novel Hag's Nook. See the web page for our plans for the site.)

New: Self-catering in a Scottish castle: Strachanbairn Tower


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  • Marshmount Castle and Folly Trustees
     
   Guildhall Annex
     
   Lower Middle High Street Road
      
   Fenton-on-the-Marsh 
    
   Wotshire TUT-F8Z 
    
   62-489956
    

  • "http://marshmount.cas.uk/nosuchsite/nonsense.html"

Marshmount Castle | Guichardo's Folly | Lord Seth | Upchuck Lodge | Bwlch Castle
Isle of Farnish | Almondsey
Travail-Aid Travel Agency | Home Page


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We must apologise that the Marshmount Castle web page was inadvertently
overlaid in February 1999 and we had to restore an older version (1996) without any
of the graphics and extensive overhaul that was done mid-1998.
 We are looking for hard copy to work from. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The page has been restored as of April 1999, thanks to Simon Elzinga of the Castle
Web Ring, who had it in cache (me being stupid enough not to have it backed up).

But as of August 1999, Marshmount has become a domain in its own right, so no
doubt there will be new problems arising.

Disclaimer: The contents of this web site are totally fictional. (At one point, I received e-mail from somebody living in Gwernogle, Wales, saying he couldn't find the castle, and somebody named Farnish wanted to know if his ancestors came from there.) My intentions with this are parodic and humorous only, and just for the hell of it. -- Grobius

Copyright © Grobius Shortling 1998
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