REDGRAVE
PARK
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A website
exploring the history and landscape of Redgrave Park, |
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| Redgrave Park
is about 200 acres of land and 50 acres of water in the
County of Suffolk in Eastern England. Its history goes back to the year 1211, at least, when the powerful Abbot of Bury St Edmunds had a hunting lodge here. After 1545 a prestigious mansion, known as Redgrave Hall, was built by Nicholas Bacon, later Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal to Queen Elizabeth 1st. In 1702 the Park and Hall were bought by Sir John Holt, the Lord Chief Justice. In the 1760's his grandson rebuilt the Hall and remodelled the Park in classical style, with the help of celebrated landscape designer 'Capability' Brown. In 1799 the Park passed by marriage into the Wilson family, where it remained until 1971. The Hall was demolished in 1947, and the Park has now partly become arable farmland. |
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FEEDBACKI hope you
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Introduction |
Before
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1542
- 1702 |
1702
- 1799 |
1799 - 1971 (Wilsons) |
| Copyright © T.D.
Holt-Wilson 2001. All rights reserved. Revised: December 07, 2007. |