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Bottisham Hall is a country house in

Bottisham Bottisham is a village and civil parish in the East Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about east of Cambridge, halfway to Newmarket. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,983, including Chittering, increasing ...

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

, England. Built in 1797 for the Reverend

George Leonard Jenyns George Leonard Jenyns (19 June 1763 – 1848) was an English priest, a landowner involved both in the Bedford Level Corporation and in the Board of Agriculture. Life He was the son of John Harvey Jenyns of Eye, Suffolk, and was born at Roydon, ...

to replace the family's previous home on the same estate,"Bottisham: Manors and other estates", ''A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire)'' (2002), pp. 196-205. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18848 Date accessed: 19 July 2014. it is set in 56 hectares of parkland. It is listed Grade II on the

National Heritage List for England The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, an ...

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{{Authority control Country houses in Cambridgeshire Grade II listed buildings in Cambridgeshire Grade II listed houses Houses completed in 1797

Hall In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the Middle Ages, the gr ...