PEER’S PALACE FOR SALE.
ancestral home. It. was recently stated that Lord Middleton is about to sell Ids ancestral home, WoUaton Hall Nottingham, with its deer park, and his landed property including the entire parishes of Langford, Carifcon-le-Mcoriand, and Stapleford. Wollaten Hall » one of the most fiimous examples of Elizabethan renaissance. It was built by John of Padua. The park adjoins the City of Nottingham and is'entirelv surrounded by a brick wall, which, according to tradition, was built by father and f.an. It is said that the stone with which Woltoton Hall was. built was carried from Ancaater in return for coal obtained from the quarries on the estate. As recently at the seventeenth century the park contained a herd of mid white cattle, such a» is now only to be found at Clullingham Cisfcle, Northumberland. In the hall grounds the shows of the Bath and West and the Royal Agricultural Societies have been held. Lord Middleton succeeded his brother in 1922. He owns nearly 160,000 acres.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19249, 13 August 1924, Page 4
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167PEER’S PALACE FOR SALE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19249, 13 August 1924, Page 4
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