Shirburn is not the first English house to discover in the 20th century that what is inside is significantly more valuable than what's outdoors. Blenheim, Chatsworth, Warwick, Bowood, Eaton Hall ...

A peer has lost a High Court battle to live in a historic castle which has been in his family for almost 300 years. The 9th Earl of Macclesfield, the Rt Hon Richard Timothy George Mansfield Parker, ...

Now, however, the High Court is being asked to decide whether an Englishman's castle is his home. The ninth Earl of Macclesfield, whose ancestors have inhabited Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire for ...