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Haddon Hall

England

Style
Tudor architecture
Heritage status
Grade I listed building
Location
Bakewell
Coordinates
53.1939°, -1.6498°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Haddon Hall in England
Photo: Rob Bendall (Highfields) · Attribution · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Haddon Hall is an English country house on the River Wye near Bakewell, Derbyshire, a former seat of the Dukes of Rutland. It is the home of Lord Edward Manners (brother of the incumbent Duke) and his family. In form a medieval manor house, it has been described as "the most complete and most interesting house of [its] period". The origins of the hall are from the 11th century, with additions at various stages between the 13th and the 17th centuries, latterly in the Tudor style.

The Vernon family acquired the Manor of Haddon by a 12th-century marriage between Sir Richard de Vernon and Alice Avenell, daughter of William Avenell II. Four centuries later, in 1563, Dorothy Vernon, the daughter and heiress of Sir George Vernon, married John Manners, the second son of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. A legend grew up in the 19th century that Dorothy and Manners eloped. The legend has been made into novels, dramatisations and other works of fiction. She nevertheless inherited the hall, and their grandson, also John Manners, inherited the Earldom in 1641 from a distant cousin. His son, another John Manners, was made 1st Duke of Rutland in 1703. In the 20th century, another John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland, made a life's work of restoring the hall.

Text adapted from “Haddon Hall” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Haddon Hall ranks #1,136 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #95 of the 397 mapped in England. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 16,689 times in the last 60 days, more than 97% of the atlas. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Sheffield, 24 km away. See how England compares in the castle statistics.

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