Castle Top

New house, also referred to as Castle Hill, built for Arthur Hugh Clough (1860-1943), 'landowner' and son of Arthur Hugh Clough the poet, 1898-1927. Hardcastle, p. 180: ‘When Burley Manor was broken up in 1894, Mr Clough bought a large tract of land between Castle Hill and the Beacon on which he built the two houses, Castle Top and Burley Hill... During his forty years here, Mr Clough bought up much of the original Manor land, and to him Burley owes Garden Road and all the houses in it, besides many cottages at Burley Street. In 1907 he gave the land for the Parish Hall. Financial difficulties in later years [1934] caused the sale of Castle Top and all the Burley estate, and he and Mrs Clough retired to his property at Winterslow near Salisbury, where he died in 1934 [sic].’