Thoresby Hall
Thoresby Hall is now a hotel.
Posted on 10/27/2018 5:47:39 AM PDT by C19fan
The UK's last remaining feudal village complete with 17 traditional red brick farms, 10 cottages, a pub and even the title of lord of the manor is up for sale for £7million. Laxton in Nottinghamshire is an 1,845-acre heritage estate which dates back to 1066 when the manor was granted to Geoffrey Alselin by William the Conqueror. In 1981 the Crown Estate purchased Laxton to try and maintain the open field strip farming system and the village is now the only place left in the country to farm in this way, reports the Guardian.
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Neat place!
The name is recorded in Domesday Book as Laxiintone, and may derive from the Anglo-Saxon... meaning the ‘farmstead or estate of the people of a man called Leaxa’. The remains of a medieval motte and bailey castle can be found on the north side of the village. The castle, which was probably more earthwork than stone, was redundant by the end of the Middle Ages, and by the 1630s a manor house had been built in the grounds where it had once been. In tutnr the manor house was demolished, but visitors can still visit the site and see the outline of the castle. [http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/places/laxton.htm
we bought some ones “ father’s farm “ in Missouri about the same time you wanted to go. we raise meat goats ( suggest grass feed beef better deal ) and were city folks...and I just checked all toliets flush just fine and our two water wells working great hehehe....thanks for not moving
Mr. niteowl77
*with hand-painted periwinkles
Laxton survived, not because it was thought worthy of survival as such, but because the major landowner, Earl Manvers of Thoresby Hall, could not afford to enclose the parish.
Check out Thoresby Hall post #45. 8>)
Oh, nice... the kind of place they’d make me put on a vest.
Sounds great!
Must be a b**** to dust.
I’m sure it is, for the help. 8>)
My rural is becoming more populated.
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