Former Carr Bank House, Mansfield, Notts.

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 8 Jan 2015

A main house, green house and south garden from one corner of Carr Bank House (now The Mansfield Manor Hotel). The front of the hotel overlooks the larger, grassed, part of the park but the public also have access to this area. The former stables can be accessed through the door in the garden wall. The house and it's gardens were built and created by the Stanton family c.1805 using profits made cotton manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. This 'estate' was later sold to the 4th Duke of Portland who was influential in shaping Mansfield and it's facilities. The Allotment Commissioners leased land from the Duke for the use of local people and these gardens became the town's first public park. The 6th Duke sold the house and grounds at the end of WWI to provide the town with a memorial park to the thousands who had died. The park was opened to the public in 1924.

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