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Haddon Hall – A Sleeping Tudor Beauty

February 2, 2023 Alistair Plant

by Brian Spencer “What we see today is basically the unaltered fortified manor house developed between the late 12th century, and 1620 when the last and minor ‘improvements’ were made” One autumn evening a few decades ago, driving home along the A6, just short of the entrance to Haddon Hall I was stopped by a […]

MC Jan STAPENHILL HALL FROM KITCHEN GDN c 1905

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Stapenhill Hall

December 30, 2022 Alistair Plant

By Maxwell Craven Derbyshire lost more parishes to Staffordshire than it gained under the local government reforms of 1887 and thereafter: Clifton Campville, Croxall, Edingale, Winshill and Stapenhill among them. The desire of the Borough Burton-upon-Trent to increase rating revenue, for instance, added to a sort of municipal tidy mindedness, resulting in the transfer in […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Culland Hall

September 2, 2022 Alistair Plant

by Maxwell Craven It is perhaps quite a stretch to envisage the sheer antiquity of the site of Culland Hall, were you to visit the place today, the splendid gardens which are occasionally open to visitors and which are well worth visiting. Indeed, the present house is an agreeable neo-Georgian brick mansion, much in the […]

MC Lost House Mar 22 BURDETT MAGDALEN ASTON W OF 3rd BT J M WRIGHT

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Foremark Hall

February 27, 2022 Alistair Plant

The estate at Foremark, where once the invading Vikings over-wintered in 783-784, was granted to Nigel de Stafford,a (genuine) comrade-in-arms of the Conqueror and ancestor in the male line of the Stafford, Longford and Gresley families. His family’s later sub-tenant was a junior member of the powerful de Ferrers family, whence it passed through an […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Pilsley Old Hall

January 9, 2022 VickyP

The last lost house about which I wrote was Coney Green Hall, bought in 1774 for £4,000 by Thomas Wilson, who also acquired Pilsley Old Hall, just over two miles away and still in North Wingfield parish, so it seemed logical to move right on to chronicle what we know about the latter. The Old […]

MC Dec 21 CONEY GREEN HALL N WINGFIELD 1883 CLIFF WILLIAMS

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire : Coney Green House – North Wingfield

November 26, 2021 Alistair Plant

The name Brailsford is a common one in Derbyshire (not to mention elsewhere), and received added lustre through the knighthood granted to Shardlow-born Sir Dave Brailsford in 2012 for services to cycling (notably Olympic cycling). As Brailsford is an unique place-name, it is generally accepted that all people of this name descend from the ancient […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Fenny Bentley Old Hall

July 1, 2021 Alistair Plant

When travelling to Buxton from Derby, as we did in May to visit the annual Buxton Antiques Fair, we usually go via Ashbourne and the A515 rather than the A6, which is slower, if more direct. This takes us through Fenny Bentley and one of the delights of passing that village is to be able […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Glossop Hall

May 1, 2018 VickyP

The Glossop Hall that was demolished in 1958-59 was an unlovely house of titanic proportions, once set in a spectacular wooded park. Unlovely it may have been, but it had an interesting history and was itself at least the third house on the site, although it probably included portions of the fabric of at least […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Spondon House

April 3, 2018 VickyP

Spondon House was a fine Georgian mansion, in reality a secondary seat on the Locko estate of the Drury Lowes. Yet it was not without presence, and its history not without interest. All accounts of the house, the building records for which are absent from the Drury-Lowe archive at the University of Nottingham Library, aver […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Willesley Hall, Ashby

February 27, 2018 VickyP

Until the local government reforms of 1888-1889 Derbyshire did not sit inside a single boundary; it has detached ‘islands’, mainly to its south, created in the Saxon period by assarting – clearing of woodland by men of Derbyshire in un-adopted regions. The settlements so created, once the County system had become established in the mid-10th […]