By Elizabeth Hunter

Stunning pictures show a ruined castle - after once being home to a UK Prime Minister and a Hollywood actress' family.

Sprawling Dalquharran Castle sits in a South Ayrshire forest in Scotland - just over six miles from the coastal town of Girvan.

It has been abandoned for 70 years following WW2 as it was too large and expensive to maintain - and now has trees surrounding it and even through it.

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Former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith stayed there - as did the great-grandfather of Helena Bonham Carter.

The lead roof was removed in 1967 so the owners

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