Castle Drogo was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the retail tycoon Julius Drewe.

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Other attractions further up the valley is the 16th century Fingle Bridge and England's most modern castle, Castle Drogo.

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Across the sea, there were the Dothraki, a Hun-like race of horseman warriors, whose brutal ruler, Drogo, took the delicate, unspellable Daenerys as a bride.

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