Newtown Linford, Bradgate Park c.1960
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N96012
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Bradgate, a park of 820 acres, was enclosed out of Charnwood Forest in c1200 as a hunting park, and it did indeed produce very fine venison. Started around 1490 by Thomas Grey. 1st Marquis of Dorset, and built using bricks produced on the site, the house was the county's first true country house. By 1696 it and its formal gardens had developed to such quality that William III was pleased to be entertained here. It was, of course, the birth-place of Lady Jane Grey, the ill fated nine-days queen, who was executed in the Tower of London in 1554. The house fell into ruin after the 1730s when the family left, although the chapel has been preserved under a modern roof.
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