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Meet the Neighbours - Sudbury Hall #79
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th April 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,meynell ingram,hounds,Grade II listed,Doomsday Book,Norman Conquest,Lord,kennels,great staircase,sudbury hall,childrens museum,George Vernon,jacobean,Downton Abbey,The Crown,growing up in a stately home
Continuing the series on neighbouring houses to Hoar Cross Hall, let me introduce you to Sudbury Hall, which is about 7 miles away and on the border of Staffordshire and Derbyshire. The manor of Sudbury was listed in the Doomsday Book following the Norman Conquest in 1086, so a lot older than the Hall, and is a Grade I listed building. The Vernon family came to Sudbury after a 16th century marriage between Sir John Vernon, from Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, and the Sudbury heiress, Ellen Montgomery. It seems the Vernon family have stayed in the Hall for generations right up until the 20th century when the 10th Baron Vernon transferred the Hall and its princip...