11 Facts About Bruce Castle

Bruce Castle is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London.

Name Bruce Castle is derived from the House of Bruce, who had historically owned a third of the manor of Tottenham.

The name Bruce Castle first appears to have been adopted by Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, although Daniel Lysons speculates in The Environs of London the name's use dates to the late 13th century.

Bruce Castle married Montagu's daughter by his first marriage and purchased the manor of Tottenham, including the Lordship House, in 1625, and was ennobled as Baron Coleraine shortly thereafter.

Bruce Castle grew up at the Hare family house at Totteridge, and it is not known when he moved to Tottenham.

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Bruce Castle first confined her to the upper part of the house and subsequently still more closely to the little rooms of the clock turret.

In 1804, Wilmot retired from public life and moved to Bruce Castle to write his memoirs of the American Revolution and his role in the investigations of its causes and consequences.

Bruce Castle was among the buildings mentioned in John Abraham Heraud's 1820 Spenserian epic, Tottenham, a romantic depiction of the life of Robert the Bruce:.

Bruce Castle is a museum, holding the archives of the London Borough of Haringey, and housing a permanent exhibition on the past, present and future of Haringey and its predecessor boroughs, and temporary displays on the history of the area.

In 2012 the public grounds at Bruce Castle were used for PARK ART in Haringey, part of the borough's cultural Olympiad offer for 2012.

The monumental sculpture, created for the front lawn of Bruce Castle Museum, referenced the traditional archetype of the regal lion commonly found in the grounds of stately homes, but the heraldic emblem of Robert the Bruce, therefore reflecting on the heritage of the building.