Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.


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Wootton Lodge, Oswald Mosley's home for four years in the 1930s says Wikipedia. The tiny car park on the edge of Wootton (it's not on the map below but you'll see signs) has its own map of walks around the village including one up to the Weavers but we're going in the opposite direction, somewhere a bit more gentle and shaded on this scorching Saturday in the middle of August.


Landed families of Britain and Ireland (472) Bamford of Hawthornden Manor, Wootton Lodge and

Lovely avenue of trees. Wootton Lodge is a privately owned 17th-century country house situated at Wootton near Ellastone,Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. This is the lake where the JCB's just drive round and round. Dont know what this building next to the lake was for.


Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.

01-07-2015 Dovecote Park Open Day at JCB and Wootton Lodge On Monday 29th June, we welcomed over 400 of our producers and their families to the JCB Visitor Centre in Staffordshire for a different take on our annual Open Day.


Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.

Wootton Lodge - The privately owned 17th century house is a grade I listed building in the parish. During the English Civil War the house was held for the Crown and was badly damaged during a Parliamentary siege. It was restored in about 1700 when a flight of balustraded entrance steps was added. [11]


Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.

Browse our selection of vintage and retro black & white photographs of Wootton Lodge, along with old maps, local history books, and fascinating memories that our visitors have contributed. All our photos and maps are available to buy in a wide range of product formats, including framed prints, canvas prints and photo gifts including tea towels, personalised mugs, jigsaws, tableware, cushion.


Wootton Lodge, Ramshorn, Staffordshire

Wootton Lodge, seen as you walk along the footpath. According to David's copy of the Staffordshire Pevsner, Wootton Lodge was built between 1580 -1611 by Sir Richard Fleetwood. He describes it as 'high, compact, and hard with it's unrelenting grid of mullions and transoms'.


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Wootton Lodge is a privately owned 17th-century country house situated at Wootton near Ellastone, Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. [1] Architectural description The impressive west entrance front has basements and three storeys topped by a balustraded parapet.


Wootton Lodge 2011 (13) dave whieldon Flickr

Description: Looking through an arch from one of the bedrooms to a small sitting room at Wootton Lodge. Photographed by Country Life in March 1959. Wootton Lodge was built as a hunting lodge by Sir Richard Fleetwood between about 1580 and 1610. It was badly damaged during the Civil War and much of the interior was restored in about 1700.


Wootton Lodge, Staffordshire. GR I Wootton Lodge was built about 1611 for Sir Richard Fleetwood

Wootton Lodge is one of a group of buildings of late 16th and early 17th century origins. Location Staffordshire Ramshorn Period Stuart (1603 - 1713) Tags country house housing Stuart (1603 - 1713)


Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.

Wootton, near Stoke-on-Trent . Staffordshire. England. Circa Date: 1600-11 w/18th & 19th century alterations and additions. Status: Fully Extant. House Open to Public: No.. During the Civil War Wootton Lodge was held for the crown and was badly damaged during a Parliamentary siege. The House was restored circa 1700, which is when the flight.


Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.

Wootton Lodge A Grade I Listed Building in Ramshorn, Staffordshire More Photos » Approximate Location Map + - Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap contributors Large Map » Coordinates Latitude: 52.9915 / 52°59'29"N Longitude: -1.859 / 1°51'32"W OS Eastings: 409563 OS Northings: 343800 OS Grid: SK095438 Mapcode National: GBR 37L.JTL Mapcode Global: WHCF9.F20H


Ellastone, Staffordshire Family History Guide Parishmouse

6 July 2003, 8 Oct 2004 & 28 August 2006 We discovered the spendour of Wootton Lodge and its beautiful park by accident. Setting off from Ellastone we walked over the Weaver Hills and descended towards Wootton. Entrance to the parkland is on well signposted paths and took us over a step-ladder stile to cross a high modern fence.


Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.

Wootton Lodge - The privately owned 17th century house is a grade I listed building in the parish. During the Civil War the house was held for the Crown and was badly damaged during a Parliamentary siege. It was restored in about 1700 when a flight of balustraded entrance steps was added.. ↑ History of Wootton in East Staffordshire;


"Weaver Hills, Staffordshire Wootton Lodge" by Stephen Walker at

Wootton Lodge was built as a hunting lodge by Sir Richard Fleetwood. Details » A Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall There were many bedrooms at Beaudesert. In this photograph the bed has a Venetian-patterned silk damask cover and the headboard is covered with a similar type of material. Beaudesert Hall was the. Details » A Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall


Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.

Introduction Wootton Lodge dates to around 1600, and was perhaps designed by Robert Smythson. The landscape was extensively altered by the Bamfords (the family owning JCB earthmoving equipment). There is a new hall south of Wootton Lodge with massive earth moving between this and the Lodge.


Out & About Wootton Lodge, The JCB Testing Track and Drowned Rats.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Bamfords were a Roman Catholic family of millers, builders and toolmakers in the Worcestershire and Staffordshire area, occupying a middling station in society on a par with the larger farmers and not aspiring to gentry status.

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