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    Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan country house of the 1580s standing on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, England. The house is...
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    of Nottinghamshire, England. Wollaton has two wards in the City of Nottingham (Wollaton East & Lenton Abbey and Wollaton West), with a total population...
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    Wollaton Park is a 500 acre park in Nottingham, England, which includes a deer park. It is centred on Wollaton Hall, a classic Elizabethan prodigy house...
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    Robert Smythson (category People from Wollaton)
    Hardwick Hall, Wollaton Hall, Burton Agnes Hall, and other significant projects. Historically, a number of other Elizabethan houses, such as Gawthorpe Hall and...
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    the local land-owner and owner of Wollaton Hall. It ran for approximately two miles (3 km) from Strelley to Wollaton to assist the haulage of coal. The...
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    building visible from outside the house. Hardwick Hall, Burghley House, and on a smaller scale Wollaton Hall, exemplify this trend. The outer exteriors of...
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    include the Wollaton Antiphonal. The current family seat is Birdsall House, near Malton, North Yorkshire. The Middleton family owned Wollaton Hall, a stately...
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    End Blickling Hall Charterhouse (London) Condover Hall (Shropshire) Danny House Hatfield House Longleat House Wollaton Hall Rainthorpe Hall In England,...
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    Nottinghamshire and elsewhere, their principal seat being Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. In the mid-17th century the hall was the home of Francis Willughby, the mathematician...
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    Francis Willoughby (1547–1596) (category People from Wollaton)
    (1546/7–1596) was an English industrialist and coalowner, who built Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire. Francis Willoughby was the younger son of Sir Henry...
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    Specimen #NGMG 2022-7" (PDF). Wollaton Hall. Retrieved 30 June 2022. "Titus T. rex Scientific Report: Discussion". Wollaton Hall. 2 February 2022. Retrieved...
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    comparison between the breadth of its source material, such as the English Wollaton Hall, Italian Palazzo Pitti, the French Château de Chambord, and the Russian...
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    skeleton. For the exhibit at the Nottingham Natural History Museum at Wollaton Hall, Titus was reconstructed "in a walking mode, perhaps searching for prey...
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  • ward contains the village of Wollaton, and the surrounding area. The most important building in the ward is Wollaton Hall, which is listed together with...
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  • which takes place eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, and Wollaton Hall (which Mentmore Towers is a near replica of) in Nottingham as Wayne...
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    The Wollaton Antiphonal was in use in the church from the 1460s. The church has a long connection with the Willoughby family of Wollaton Hall who were...
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  • kept safe by the Willoughby family (later the Barons Middleton) in Wollaton Hall library until 1924, when it was returned to the church. In 1974 it was...
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    editions in 1579 and 1584. In 1577, three years before the commencement of Wollaton Hall, a copybook of the orders was brought out in Antwerp by Hans Vredeman...
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    Elizabethan or Jacobethan prodigy house, such as nearby Burghley or Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire, although with notable European influences. Mark...
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    Sussex (1577) Rainthorpe Hall, Norfolk (1579-& seq.) Wollaton Hall, Nottingham (1580-88 by Robert Smythson) Benthall Hall, Salop. (1580) Castle Lodge...
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    home Wollaton Hall is adjacent to the university campus. 2007 saw the addition of The Mix, now named Vesper, the largest of the 4 remaining hall bars...
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    Percival Willoughby (category People from Wollaton)
    Sir Percival Willoughby (died 23 August 1643) of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire was a prominent land owner, businessman, and entrepreneur involved during...
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    d'Aspremont: chanson de geste du XII ̇siècle: Text du manuscrit de Wollaton Hall, vol. 1, Paris: Honoré Champion; volume 2 (1921). (in French) da Barberino...
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    included in the art work of Nikolaus Pevsner alongside the Elizabethan Wollaton Hall and Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of Lord Byron. Pevsner described...
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    characterised by lavish use of glass, as at "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall", Wollaton Hall, Montacute House, Hatfield House and Burghley House, the...
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  • accidents occurred during the production of the film. While filming at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, a tractor-trailer crashed into the main entrance, though...
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    Vicky McClure (category People from Wollaton)
    The Replacement (2017). Vicky Lee McClure was born on 8 May 1983 in the Wollaton area of Nottingham. Her father was a joiner and her mother was a hairdresser...
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    France was inspired by Mentmore Towers, which in turn is a copy of Wollaton Hall. Other mansions were built in the new and innovative styles of the new...
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    Workhouse, Southwell National Trust Thoresby Hall Park Wheelgate Park Welbeck Abbey Wollaton Hall Wollaton Park Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem High Sheriff...
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    married Margaret Willoughby the daughter of Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollaton Hall and Elizabeth Lyttelton. Robert had seven children by Margaret. Sir...
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