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Ashby St Ledgers

Near Daventry, Northamptonshire

Robert Catesby's family manor, where the plot is said to have been planned.

Ashby St Ledgers was the home of the Catesby family. Robert Catesby, leader of the Gunpowder Plot, is said to have met his fellow plotters in the room above the gatehouse.

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When
1604–1605
Where
52.2965, -1.1505
Group
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The manor is private. The gatehouse and the village church can be seen from the road.

Cover of Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful? by Cale Mills
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Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful?

This book asks one question and keeps asking it: was Guy Fawkes faithful, or a traitor? Most people think they already know. The answer has been handed down for four hundred years, with a bonfire and a rhyme, and it is rarely examined. From the boy from Stonegate in York to the cellar, the Tower and Westminster Hall, every chapter ends with a ledger of what it adds in his favour and what it adds against him. By the last page you may find that the answer you arrived with is not the one you leave with.

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