New Castle County, Delaware On November 6, 1674, New Amstel was made dependent on New York Colony, and was renamed New Castle on November 11, 1674. On September 22, 1676, New Castle County was formally placed under the Duke of York's laws. It gained land from Upland County on November 12, 1678. On June 21, 1680, St. Jones County was carved from New Castle County. It is known today as Kent County, Delaware. On August 24, 1682, New Castle County, along with the rest of the surrounding land, was transferred from the Colony of New York to the possession of William Penn, who established
Chilham Castle early 1920s, again replacing a very different 19th century one. From 1949 until his death in 1992 it was owned by the Hon. John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville Skeffington Chilham Castle is currently owned by UKIP activist Stuart Wheeler, who lives there with his three daughters, Sarah, Jacquetta, and Charlotte. Stuart's wife the photographer Tessa Codrington died in 2016. The site now hosts the Chilham Park Equestrian Centre. In 1965 it was used for part of the filming of "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders" starring Kim Novak, Leo McKern and Angela Lansbury. In 1985 Chilham Castle featured in an