Kinlet Hall is an 18th-century,

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Kinlet Kinlet is a small village and civil parish in the south-east of the county of Shropshire, England. The parish is on the northern edge of the Wyre Forest and is in the Bridgnorth District of Shropshire. The parish incorporates the hamlet (place), ...

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, now occupied by an independent day and residential school. It is a

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and its design was inspired by

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. Images of England: architectural description of listed building and 2007 photograph
/ref> The manor of Kinlet was held by the Brampton and Cornwall families until it passed via his maternal ancestors to Humphrey Blount (of the Sodington Hall family), who was

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in 1461.''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' Vol 3. John Burke (1838) p199 It later passed to

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(or Lacon), High Sheriff in 1571, through the female line and subsequently by the marriage of a Lacon daughter and heiress who married Sir William Childe. The old manor house was replaced in 1727–1729 by William Lacon Childe, who commissioned architect

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to create the present

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style mansion. The brick-built, east-facing, three-storey, seven-bayed central block is flanked by single-storey wings and two smaller detached two-storey blocks; the block to the north originally housed stables and the block to the south the kitchens. The Childe family were resident at Kinlet Hall until the 20th century. During

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, the house was occupied by the

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and afterwards acquired by Moffats Independent School. In June 2020, Kinlet Hall was placed for sale for £3.5 million.Kinlet Hall for sale, 'The Steeple Times' https://www.thesteepletimes.com/opulence-splendour/kinlet-hall-shropshire/ A

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Hall class locomotive No. 4936 is named ''Kinlet Hall''.

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