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Locko Park
Locko Park is a privately owned 18th-century country house in between the villages of Stanley and Ockbrook in the borough of Erewash, near Spondon, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The estate was acquired by William Gilbert from William Byrde in 1563. The oldest part of the house is the chapel of 1669. The main south facing block of the present house, built about 1725 out of locally sourced Keuper sandstoneMaxwell Craven. "The Derbyshire Country House". ''Breedon Books'' (1991) p131. . Print for the member of parliament, Robert Ferne,Nikolaus Pevsner. "The Buildings of England: Derbyshire". ''Penguin Books'' (1978) p264. has three storeys and nine bays and a substantial Tuscan porch. The architect is believed to have been Francis Smith of Warwick.John Cornforth (June 1969). "Locko Park, Derbyshire". ''Country Life'', CXLV. Cited by Nikolaus Pevsner. "The Buildings of England: Derbyshire". ''Penguin Books'' (1978) p264. The current house was bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Buildings In Erewash
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Erewash in Derbyshire. List of buildings See also * Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire * Grade II* listed buildings in Amber Valley * Grade II* listed buildings in Bolsover (district) * Grade II* listed buildings in Chesterfield * Grade II* listed buildings in Derby * Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire Dales * Grade II* listed buildings in High Peak There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of High Peak in Derbyshire. List of buildings See also * Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire * Grad ... * Grade II* listed buildings in North East Derbyshire * Grade II* listed buildings in South Derbyshire Notes External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Grade II listed buildings in Erewash Borough of Erewash Lists of Grade II* listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spondon
Spondon is a ward of the city of Derby. Originally a small village, Spondon dates back to the Domesday Book and it became heavily industrialised in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with companies such as British Celanese. History The name Spondon is Old English language, Anglo-Saxon and describes a gravelly hill. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.748 In about 1333,Roger de Bankwell at Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain a great fire, starting at Malt Shovel, Spondon, The Malt Shovel, a local pub, and aided by an easterly wind, swept through the village destroying the church and all but a few houses, with just one casualty, the mayor. The damage was so great that a judge, Roger de Bankwell, was sent to hear pleas for relief from taxes. The Great Fire of Spondon is still commemorated and taught as part of the curriculum in local schools. A village fair was held on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calke Abbey
Calke Abbey is a Grade I listed country house near Ticknall, Derbyshire, England, in the care of the charitable National Trust. The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building, named Calke Abbey in 1808, was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704. The house was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was handed to the Trust. History Calke Priory was founded by Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester some time between 1115 and 1120 and was dedicated to St Giles; d'Avranches had inherited from his father vast estates in both England and Normandy, of which Calke and many of the surrounding villages were part. The Priory was initially an independent community, but af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Houses In Derbyshire
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, while the country of Wales is a component of a multi-part sovereign state, the United Kingdom. A country may be a historically sovereign area (such as Korea), a currently sovereign territory with a unified government (such as Senegal), or a non-sovereign geographic region associated with certain distinct political, ethnic, or cultural characteristics (such as the Basque Country). The definition and usage of the word "country" is flexible and has changed over time. '' The Economist'' wrote in 2010 that "any attempt to find a clear definition of a country soon runs into a thicket of exceptions and anomalies." Most sovereign states, but not all countries, are members of the United Nations. The largest country by area is Russia, while the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Buildings In Derbyshire
The county of Derbyshire is divided into nine districts. The districts of Derbyshire are High Peak, Derbyshire Dales, South Derbyshire, Erewash, Amber Valley, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Bolsover, and Derby. As there are 460 Grade II* listed buildings in the county they have been split into separate lists for each district. * Grade II* listed buildings in Amber Valley * Grade II* listed buildings in Bolsover (district) * Grade II* listed buildings in Chesterfield * Grade II* listed buildings in Derby * Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire Dales * Grade II* listed buildings in Erewash * Grade II* listed buildings in High Peak * Grade II* listed buildings in North East Derbyshire * Grade II* listed buildings in South Derbyshire See also * Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire There are over 9000 Grade I listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the county of Derbyshire, sub-divided by district. Amber Valley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Dale Abbey
Dale Abbey is a civil parish in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 20 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Dale Abbey and the surrounding area. The village gets its name from the abbey of the same name, which is in ruins. The abbey ruins are listed, together with buildings in the village, including houses, farmhouses and farm buildings, and a church with an attached house. To the north of the village is a post mill, which is listed together with two associated buildings. To the west of the village is Locko Park, a country house An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhouse (Great Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams Deacon's Bank
Williams Deacon's Bank was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1930. It had a large network of branches in the north-west of England. In 1970, it was integrated with Glyn, Mills & Co. and The National Bank (which were part of the same group) to form Williams & Glyn's Bank. History Familiarity with the Williams Deacon's name conceals the reality that the dominant institution was the Manchester & Salford Bank. When Manchester & Salford acquired William Deacon's in 1890 it changed its name to the cumbersome Williams Deacon & Manchester & Salford Bank only to shorten it to Williams Deacon's Bank in 1901. The bank was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1931.A H Allman et al, ''Williams Deacon's 1771–1970'' (1971) Manchester & Salford Bank The Manchester and Salford Banking Company was founded in 1836. Forty years later, Grindon wrote that of the older Manchester joint stock banks, "this one stands alone in never having brought on itself any serious misfortune ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sheriff Of Derbyshire
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Huntley And Palmer
Huntley & Palmers is a British company of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire. Formed by Joseph Huntley in 1822, the company became one of the world's first global brands (chiefly led by George Palmer who joined in 1841) and ran what was once the world’s largest biscuit factory. The biscuits were sold in elaborately decorated biscuit tins. In 1900 the company's products were sold in 172 countries, and their global reach saw their advertising posters feature scenes from around the world. Over the years, the company was also known as "J. Huntley & Son" and "Huntley & Palmer". In 2006, Huntley & Palmers resumed operations and was re-established in Sudbury, Suffolk. Since 1985, the New Zealand firm Griffin's Foods has made Huntley and Palmers biscuits under licence. In 2017, conservators found a 106-year-old fruitcake from the company in the artefacts from Cape Adare. The cake is believed to have been part of the rations of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italianate
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, synthesising these with picturesque aesthetics. The style of architecture that was thus created, though also characterised as "Neo-Renaissance", was essentially of its own time. "The backward look transforms its object," Siegfried Giedion wrote of historicist architectural styles; "every spectator at every period—at every moment, indeed—inevitably transforms the past according to his own nature." The Italianate style was first developed in Britain in about 1802 by John Nash, with the construction of Cronkhill in Shropshire. This small country house is generally accepted to be the first Italianate villa in England, from which is derived the Italianate architecture of the late Regency and early Victorian e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Drury Lowe
William Drury-Lowe (1802–1877) was an English landowner who inherited the Locko Park lands and became a High Sheriff of Derbyshire. Biography William Drury Holden was born in 1802 eldest son of Robert Holden of Darley Abbey and, through his wife née Mary-Anne Drury-Lowe, of Denby and Locko Park. He completed his education with a bachelor of arts from Christ Church, Oxford. On the death of his grandmother Anne Drury-Lowe in 1849 William Drury Holden changed his surname to Drury-Lowe having inherited the lands and arms associated with the Locko Park estate near Spondon in Derbyshire, although this was not formally confirmed until 1853.Biography of William Drury Lowe (1802-1877 Nottingham University, accessed September 2009 After his marriage in 1827 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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