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Information about Horseheath Hall

The original Hall was the home of the Alington family and was visited by Queen Elizabeth 1.  This was replaced by a huge new Hall started in the 1660’s with a facade of 140 feet and 4 stories high with about 300 windows.  The grounds were formally laid out and included a deer park, an orangery, a menagerie and Acre pond complete with boathouse, punts and a punt gun, now in Cambridge Folk Museum.  The Alingtons sold to the Bromley family, later Lords Montfort, whose extravagence led to the Hall being demolished in the late 1700’s.  Pretty much all that remains today is a large cedar tree or two.  The first item by Janet Morris on the list below is a good introduction, while the second item is a comprehensive book by Catherine Parsons.

Documents

Document File Size File Type
'The rise and fall of Horseheath Hall', by Janet Morris, 2004 381.93 KB PDF
'Horseheath Hall and its owners', by Catherine Parsons, 1948 4.50 MB PDF
'Horseheath', extract from 'The Architecture of Sir Roger Pratt', edited by Dr.R… 972.08 KB PDF
'Horseheath Hall', by Sue Carter, 2010 497.91 KB PDF
Owners genealogy and Knights Fees, 310.53 KB PDF
Peerage directory entries, 1812-1866 1.11 MB PDF
Letters from Owners 330.20 KB PDF
'Horseheath and the Alingtons', by Arthur Hervey, 1868 879.35 KB PDF
'William Alington of Horseheath', by J.S.Roskill, 1959 935.64 KB PDF
'William Cole of Milton', extract by W.M.Palmer. 1935 4.29 MB PDF
'Archaeology within the gardens., by S.N.Kemp,1999 1.25 MB PDF
'A Particular and Conditions of Sale', 1777 782.09 KB PDF
'Along the Roman Road in the footsteps of Elizabeth I, by Janet Morris, 2003 160.24 KB PDF
'An Elizabethan Progress', extract by Zillah Dovey, 1996 1.52 MB PDF
'The Grenadillo Box', synopsis, by Janet Gleeson, 2003 412.49 KB PDF
Press cuttings 2.96 MB PDF

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