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Extract from the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Travel Guides:
ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH
, fourteen miles northwest of Leicester, takes its fanciful name from two sources - the town's first Norman overlord was Alain de Parrhoet la Souche and the rest means "place by the ash trees". Nowadays, Ashby is far from rustic, but it's an amiable little place and just off Market Street, the main drag, stands its principal attraction, the
Castle
(April-Oct daily 10am-6pm; Nov-March Wed-Sun 10am-4pm; 2.75; EH), whose rambling ruins mostly date from the fifteenth century. The star turn is the hundred-foot-high
Hastings Tower
, a self-contained four-storey stronghold, which, dati...
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