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Thoresby Hall Hotel, Nottinghamshire

A Grade I-listed mansion on the edge of Sherwood Forest

Perched on the edge of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, the house, gardens and parklands of Thoresby Hall are as grand an invocation of the 18th and 19th-Centuries as you’ll find. Balconies and cupolas on the outside, galleries and tapestries within and all bound in unforgettable period elegance; Thoresby Hall has it all.

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Thoresby Hall Hotel & Spa History

History of Thoresby Hall

Robert de Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston, whose family acquired Thoresby Hall in 1633, had briefly considered fighting for neither Royalist nor Parliamentarian cause. “Let a cannon-ball divide me between them”, he’s intoned, the very same ordnance duly obliging once battle was joined at Gainsborough in 1643.

If this wasn’t enough, the flying ammunition had ironically been launched by the Earl’s own cavalier troops on an attempt to free him form Roundhead captivity. Look for the Pierrepont family crest above the fireplace in the Great Hall, along with plenty of other richly-telling historical artifacts.