From left: OOFA vice-president Charles Owens, Ken Ogle, Northumberland College head of land and environment David Wear, Malcolm Watson and college CEO and principal Marcus Clinton
Forty- five American descendants of the Ogle family of Northumberland travelled to their ancestral home in the UK to visit sites linked to their ancestors and launch a unique conservation project.
The Ogle family was prominent in Northumberland and British history, owning castles at Kirkley Hall, Ogle, Cockle Park and more, and members of the Ogle/Ogles Family Association of America (OOFA) visited the county for a two-week tour in September. The group stopped off at Kirkley Hall estate, now a campus of Northumberland College, to officially inveil a handmade wooden plaque that honours the Ogle family, after the association raised US$2,500 (£1,900) to restore a historic pond, renamed Ogle Pond, to its former glory.
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