Wanlip Hall

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Wanlip Hall
Wanlip Hall from European Magazine 1809.jpg
from the European Magazine 1809
Wanlip Hall
General information
TypeHome
Locationby the River Soar in Wanlip
Town or cityWanlip
CountryLeicestershire
Coordinates 52°41′37″N1°06′37″W / 52.6936°N 1.1103°W / 52.6936; -1.1103 Coordinates: 52°41′37″N1°06′37″W / 52.6936°N 1.1103°W / 52.6936; -1.1103
Construction startedc. 1750
Demolished1939
ClientPalmer family

Wanlip Hall was a large house in Wanlip near the English shire town of Leicester. It was the ancestral home of the Palmer family. The building was demolished before the Second World War.

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History

There was a hall in Wanlip that came into the possession of Walter Palmer of Staffordshire in 1622 from Sir Walter Aston. The Palmer family were only the third family to own the manor in the last 800 years. [1] This former hall was designed for defence and it had castle like properties. [2]

The older hall was demolished and it was replaced by the Palmer family with a new imposing hall in about 1750. They later extended and improved this imposing building that stood beside the River Soar. [2]

The first baronet was Charles Grave Hudson. He married Harriet who was one of the three daughters of Sir William Pepperell of Boston. Harriet's mother was Elizabeth the daughter of the rich American Isaac Royall. There is a portrait of William Pepperell and his family by John Singleton Copley.

When the nearby river [2] was canalised a plan was created to avoid the new canal coming into Wanlip. [3] Charles Grave Hudson became a baronet before he died in Wanlip in 1813. [4]

The second baronet to live here was Charles Thomas Hudson Palmer who took the name of Palmer. The hall continued in the ownership of the Palmer baronets. Unlike many neighbouring manors, the Palmer family resisted the trend to sell of land to other families. The few families that did live at Wanlip eventually moved away leaving the Palmer family as the sole owners and occupiers of 900 acres of land. [1] This family did make changes but they reputedly treated the villagers as if they were under their control. In 1901, Archdale Palmer who owned the land died and his widow, Lady Augusta, lived on at Wanlip Hall until 1933. The hall was demolished in 1938. [5]

Today the land is in the possession of Palmer family descendants. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Smith, Michael. "The Village of Wanlip". leicestershirevillages.com. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Wanlip Hall, European Magazine, 1803, p33, retrieved 1 July 2014
  3. Leicestershire: Wanlip. 'A Plan of the Navigation as it intended to go by the estate ..., National Archives, retrieved 9 July 2014
  4. The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England), Volume 114. 1813. p. 406.
  5. "The Palmer family of Wanlip" (PDF). Leicestershire County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016.