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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]
The surviving park and outbuildings such as the chapel, kitchen garden, gates and bridge are intact and mainly are listed structures. The Clumber and Hardwick locations until 1974 were a part of Worksop ancient parish, which was abolished and became a part of the newly formed Bassetlaw district unparished area. [14]
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.
These reports, it is pointed out, state that the church at Clumber was decorated with a crucifix over the rood screen, with images of the Virgin and of St John, with a baldachino over the “high altar,” and a crucifix on the re-table with a tabernacle for the reserved sacrament, having a silver lamp suspended in front of it, and with other ...
Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, the seat of the Dukes of Newcastle, was demolished in 1938.. When Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, portraying life in the English country house, was published in 1945, its first few chapters offered a glimpse of an exclusive and enviable world, a world of beautiful country houses with magnificent contents, privileged occupants, a profusion of servants ...
The terrace on the north side of Clumber Lake in Clumber Park extends for about 60 metres (200 ft), and has a central landing stage, steps and flanking walls. It contains two pairs of garden benches, one pair semicircular with scrolled ends in the form of winged lions, the other pair with scrolled ends and lion's head finials , and all with ...
Nottinghamshire, and its location within the United Kingdom. This is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Nottinghamshire, a county in the East Midlands.
Abinger Roughs and Netley Park, Abinger Hammer/Wotton; Bookham Commons; Box Hill; Clandon House (Largely destroyed by fire) Claremont Landscape Garden; Dapdune Wharf; Hatchlands Park; Hindhead Common; The Homewood; Hydon's Ball; Leith Hill; Oakhurst Cottage; Polesden Lacey; Reigate Hill and Gatton Park; River Wey and Godalming Navigations ...