Don't forget to bring your Loincloth!  Well perhaps not as the English weather can be none too kind at times.  Although some of our guests can't help themselves after a night of merriment in the local pub, to try out that infamous "Tarzan Call" for themselves much to the amuzement of their friends and our locals!!

When Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the epic Tarzan story in 1912, Greystoke wasn't actually mentioned in the original manuscript.  It was added later after a chance meeting with a member of the Howard family while he working as a 'War Correspondent' during the Boer War.  He decided that it would be of a greater advantage if he used the 'Greystoke' name as it was a little know place and it would also help to make his story more plausable. Back then it was only the rich and learned elite who could read, so if he had chosen somewhere like Windsor everybody would have known everybody else of high stature and his story would at once have been shelved.  

Edgar had become a great friend of the "Howard Family" who resided in Greystoke Castle then, and whose ancestors still do, so he would frequently visit throughout the years, and his story was hatched.

There have been many actors who have played the ledgendry character of Tarzon over the years, perhaps the most noteable one being the Olympic Swimmer turned actor Johnny Weismuller, Buster Crabbe, Ron Ely, and latest to date is Christopher Lambert.