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Clumber Park in 1829. Clumber, mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086, was a monastic property in the Middle Ages but later came into the hands of the Holles family. [3] In 1707 permission was granted to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to enclose 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of Sherwood Forest, and re-purpose it as a deer park. [4]
Clumber Park is the main portion of the overall parish. The area was formerly a ducal estate of the Pelham-Clinton family, also known as the Dukes of Newcastle, and is now owned by the National Trust. It is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The gardens and the estate are open to the public all year round.
Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne was a title that was created three times, once in the Peerage of England and twice in the Peerage of Great Britain. The first grant of the title was made in 1665 to William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle upon Tyne . [ 1 ]
Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne in the robes of the Order of the Garter, by William Hoare, c. 1752. "The Return From Shooting" (1788) by Sir Francis Wheatley depicting The Duke of Newcastle, his friend Colonel Litchfield and the Duke's gamekeeper, Mansell along with four Clumber Spaniels.
The last mansion in single-family occupation is Welbeck Abbey – by a great-nephew of Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, the last duke. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland had neighbouring Welbeck Woodhouse built in the early 1930s when he bore his courtesy marquessate style. The latter property is equally intact, 0. ...
Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk gave it to his son, the Earl of Surrey, in 1815. In 1838, the Earl of Surrey sold the estate to Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle of nearby Clumber Park for £375,000, who ruthlessly stripped the house. He demolished the main wing of the house with gunpowder, having sold off the roof lead and some ...
This does not include National Trust properties, unless they contain significant estate land. The list is subdivided using the National Trust's own system which divides England into nine regions. These are not the same as the official Regions of England. The counties of England are divided up as follows: Devon & Cornwall; East of England
The settlement was created by the landowners, the Dukes of Newcastle, in the later part of the Nineteenth century to serve the Park and estate of Clumber.It was designed on a picturesque, Neo-Elizabethan style, with an asymmetrical aspect designed to give the impression of a traditional village which had grown ad hoc, and to no particular plan.