[Robert DeLong]

A brief history to start. In that link you will find that Laxton Hall was later built because the original castle was in ruins.

Pictures of Laxton Hall.

Laxton Hall with some architectural renderings

[sauropod]

Neat place!

[SunkenCiv]

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

[niteowl77]

Laxton Hall looks like just the place to have tables set with Royal Doulton.*

Mr. niteowl77

*with hand-painted periwinkles