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Meet the Neighbours - Blithfield Hall #78
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th March 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,Blithfield Hall,world war 2,Bagot,goat,death duties,South Staffs Waterworks Company,victorian,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Grade 1 listed,Blithfield Reservoir,Elizabethan,Civil war
This month I start a brand new series on stately homes local to Hoar Cross Hall and the first one is Blithfield Hall, which was probably the nearest stately home neighbour to Hoar Cross Hall and had been privately owned by the Bagot family since the 14th century. The house, which is Grade I listed, is situated between Rugeley and Abbots Bromley and is about 6 miles from the Hall. I remember calling round with my parents once to see Nancy, Lady Bagot, and admiring the goats they had roaming around the nearby fields. Blithfield Hall is known as the home of a breed of goat, the Bagot goat, which for several hundred years have lived semi-wild on the estate....