Holbeck Woodhouse is a hamlet in the civil parish of
Holbeck, in the
Bassetlaw district, in the county of
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...
, England. It is located 6 miles south of
Worksop
Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from th ...
and is about ½ mile south of the village of Holbeck. The hamlet is part of the Welbeck Abbey estate, and was built for the Dukes of Portland.
Woodhouse Hall was the residence of Robert, first Earl of Kingston, who died in 1643.
[White's Directory of Nottinghamshire. 1853.]
References
Hamlets in Nottinghamshire
Bassetlaw District
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