Gainsborough Old Hall
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Gainsborough Old Hall
Image: © Marathon Taken: 7 Sep 2019
The Shell Guide to Lincolnshire says of Gainsborough: "Dreary red houses line the approaches, and the streets leading to the centre seem to be made up of forbidding factories and warehouses. The highlights though are the River Trent, The Old Hall, and the parish church." Ashcroft Mill, which was George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss" stood near the Trent Bridge and has long gone. In the late 15th century Sir Thomas Burgh erected a house to replace one destroyed by the Lancastrian army in 1470, and in the 1590s William Hickman made extensive additions. The Old Hall fell on hard times in the 18th and 19th centuries but has now been extensively restored. Batsford's book of Lincolnshire describes The Old Hall as "a piece of domestic architecture of supreme interest and importance". For more information see https://www.gainsborougholdhall.com/
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Image Location
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53.400393
Longitude
-0.778545