Scraptoft Hall
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Scraptoft Hall
Image: © Richard Croft Taken: 19 Jan 2011
Ancestral home of the Wigley family, this delightful Queen Anne country house of 1723 was bought by Leicester Education Committee in 1954 and evolved as an educational campus with Leicester Polytechnic and latterly De Montfort University. The campus closed in 2003 and much of the parkland developed as retirement housing, though the hall remains forlorn and vandalised.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.644816
Longitude
-1.043423