The Arts Centre is in a 19th century heritage building, the former Raglan School.

According to the blue plaque on the building ( also known as " The Old School ") (), it was built around 1450 by John Raglan ( Herbert ) and was then owned by Robert Raglan, from a family who had significant power in the area at the time and held many local administrative posts as stewards and priests.

Raglan Castle became first a source of local building materials, then a romantic ruin, and is now a modern tourist attraction.

In 1432 William purchased the manor of Raglan, where he had already been staying as a tenant, for 1, 000 marks (£ 666 ) and commenced a programme of building work that established the basic shape of the castle as seen today, although most of it — with the exception of the South Gate and the Great Tower — was later built over.

His son, Henry Somerset, died shortly after inheriting Raglan, but not before using lead reclaimed from Tintern Abbey to help the building work at Raglan Castle during the dissolution of the monasteries.

Raglan is a small beachside town located 48 km west of Hamilton, New Zealand on State Highway 23.

* Raglan, New Zealand, a town on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island

** Raglan ( New Zealand electorate ), a former parliamentary electorate centred on the town

* Raglan, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Calliope in the Capricornia region of Queensland, Australia

* Raglan, Victoria, a town in Australia

** FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, commander of the British troops in the Crimean War who took his name from the Welsh town

Over two centuries later, during the Civil War, the town changed hands several times, and in 1645 the bridge was the scene of a skirmish between Royalist soldiers from Raglan and Parliamentarians under Colonel Kirle.

Chester Road, Cumberland Road, Cambridge Street, Oxford Road, Suffolk Street, Carlisle Street, Norfolk Street Raglan Avenue, Belford Street, Salford Street and Phoenix Avenue were some of the first streets in the town and are named after English localities.

As a descendant of the fifth Duke of Beaufort Lord Raglan is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

Like their Beaufort relatives, the Barons of Raglan can boast an unbroken line of male ( but illegitimate ) descent from Henry II and the earliest Plantagenets.

He was the eldest son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort and Mary Capell, styled Lord Herbert of Raglan from 1667 until 1682 and Marquess of Worcester thereafter.

He was the third son of the 5th duke of Beaufort, and elder brother of Lord Raglan.

* FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ( born 1788 ) was the eighth and youngest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, by Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral the Hon.

Badminton House is a large country house in Gloucestershire, England, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century, when the family moved from Raglan Castle, which had been ruined in the English Civil War.

He was the brother of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, General Lord Edward Somerset, Lord Arthur Somerset and Field Marshal FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan.

Some historians, such as John Kenyon, suspect that an early motte and bailey castle may have built on the Raglan site during this period: the location had strategic importance and archaeologists have discovered the remains of a possible bailey ditch on the site.

The defences of Raglan were improved after this, with modern earthwork bastions built around the castle and a powder mill created ; a garrison of around 300 men was established at a cost of £ 40, 000.

Raglan Castle was built in several phases, initial work occurring in the 1420s and 1430s, a major phase in the 1460s, with various alterations and additions at the end of the 16th century.

Many castles built around the same time as Raglan appear to have been built with less concern for defences than in the past, their military features more symbolic than real.

A large oriel window lit the end of the hall occupied at dinner by the earls of Worcester, which by the time Raglan was built would have been used only for larger formal occasions.

In the 15th century the fashion for the creation of very expensive, French-influenced palatial castles featuring complex tower keeps spread, with new keeps being built at Wardour, Tattershall and Raglan Castle.

" I am sure I could walk into it, with scarcely the loss of a man ," wrote Cathcart to Raglan on 28 September from the heights above the eastern approach to the city.

Raglan had at first thought the Russian advance a feint, possibly designed to occupy him whilst the enemy stormed out of Sevastopol to attack his army overlooking the heights above the city ; but now he saw that he had been wrong.

Raglan, meanwhile, had taken up his position on the Sapouné Heights, 650 feet (~ 200 m ) above the plain.

The three-storey gatehouse to Raglan Castle dates from the 1460s and is approached over a stone bridge restored in 1949.

Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.

* Efnisien appeared prominently in the 2003 film Otherworld, in which he was voiced by Welsh actor Alun Raglan.

An Anglo-French force under General St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan defeated General Menshikov's Russian army, which lost around 6, 000 troops.

However, this position committed the British to the defence of the right flank of the Allied siege operations, for which Raglan had insufficient troops.

The decision by Raglan was a bad mistake, and one for which the British Army was to pay a terrible price.

The local Raglan economy was supported initially by flax and timber exports, these were followed by farming and dairy which are still the mainstays of the area.

Xtreme Waste's stated goal is to create a waste management system for the Raglan / Whaingaroa community in which none of the waste is stored in landfills.

Issues of performance in the Crimean War, especially disastrous lack of due provision for operations during the Russian winter of 1854 brought about the Board's demise in 1855. also the reference to Lord Raglan # Notable staff | below. As a result of enquiries made into the breakdown of transport and hospital arrangements during the first winter of the war, the Board of Ordnance, which had been in existence for four hundred years, was abolished, and the Artillery together with the Royal Engineers came directly under the Commander-in-Chief and the War Office like the rest of the Army.

* Eleven new seats were created, of which seven ( Christchurch North, Dunedin West, Glenfield, Otara, Panmure, Tongariro and West Auckland ) were won by Labour, and four ( Franklin, Raglan, Rodney and Waikaremoana ) by National.

The division formed part of the British army under Lord Raglan which landed in the Crimea and attempted to capture the port of Sebastopol.

King Charles sent his own son, Prince Charles, on a fund-raising tour of friendly regions, starting with Raglan Castle in October 1642, following which Henry was promoted to be the first Marquess of Worcester.

There has been much discussion amongst academics about the extent to which Raglan was influenced by contemporary French designs ; one school of thought suggests that it was heavily influenced by designs that were then popular in the south of France ; others oppose this " diffusionist " school of thought, and argue that there is insufficient evidence to draw such a conclusion.

* Raglan sleeve, a type of clothing sleeve popular in sports and exercise wear which took its name from the 1st Baron

** Raglan ( garment ), a loose outer garment having raglan sleeves in which the seam angles toward the neckline

The Gas Company, which was formed in 1862, was the work of Henry Courtis, a man who had supplied gas to Castlemaine, Ballarat and other towns ; nothing now remains of the gas works except the tiny cottage of the manager off Raglan Street towards the hospital.

An Anglo-French force under General St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan defeated General Menshikov's Russian army, which lost around 6, 000 troops.

An Anglo-French force under General St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan defeated General Menshikov's Russian army, which lost around 6, 000 troops.