Haughton Hall was an English country house near

Haughton, Nottinghamshire Haughton is a hamlet in the English county of Nottinghamshire. Haughton lies on the south bank of the River Maun about one mile south west from Bothamsall Bothamsall is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshi ...

History

Houghton Hall was built by

William Holles Sir William Holles (or Hollis) (1471?– 20 October 1542) rose from apprenticeship to a mercer to become master warden of his company and Lord Mayor of London in 1539. Life He was admitted to the freedom of the Worshipful Company of Mercers on ...

and his son

William Holles (MP) Sir William Holles (1509/10 – 18 January 1591) JP of Haughton, Nottinghamshire was a member of parliament for Nottinghamshire and also High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests. He was born the second son of William H ...

. The park of 240 acres was enclosed in 1509 and the small house was greatly extended.

Gervase Holles Gervase Holles (9 March 1607 – 10 February 1675) was an English lawyer, antiquarian and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War. Holles was the son of Frescheville ...

reported that the hall contained a shield inscribed W.H. A.D. 1545. The park was later extended to 900 acres. After

died in 1590, the estate passed through the hands the

Earls of Clare Earl of Clare was a title of British nobility created three times: once each in the peerages of England, Great Britain and Ireland. The title derives from Clare, Suffolk, where a prominent Anglo-Norman family was seated since the Norman Conques ...

, and then through to the Dukes of Newcastle-under-Lyme. When they built themselves a house at Clumber in 1770, Haughton Hall was demolished. Around 1610, Prince Henry was entertained in the house for several days by John Holles who was Comptroller of the Household for the prince until his death in 1612.

References

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