Saturday, April 29, 2006


But I decided I would drive around the exterior of the estate and see if the Hall was visible from the road. It took quite a time to circumnavigate the demesne (lots of private tracks leading into it with signs saying Private) but eventually I found this view. Reading Pevsner later, I discovered that the present Hall is actually the former stables (by H E Kendall) converted into a house, and that the main building had been demolished after the Second World War (Pevsner also informed me that a large mound in the park was not a tumulus but had in fact been raised over the grave of a nineteenth-century circus elephant).

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