Egerton Castle
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Egerton Castle

Egerton Castle

Reclusive nobleman's 52-room mansion turned museum near Njoro

A 52-room mansion built between 1930 and 1940 by Lord Maurice Egerton of Tatton, a reclusive British nobleman who never married and spent his last years here in self-imposed exile. The house sits in open countryside about 12 km west of Nakuru, near Njoro and the campus of Egerton University (which Egerton founded). It is now a museum, with most of the original rooms preserved — a strange, melancholy place that's worth the short trip out for the architecture and the story.

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