Baggrave Hall, South Croxton , England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Gardens and a landscape park of the mid-18th century and early 19th century associated with a country house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Baggrave Hall stands in its park in rolling clayland 10 kilometres east of Leicester. The park slopes down from the south-west, from a lodge on Hungarton Road, to the north-east, to the Queniborough Brook, which forms the north-east boundary of the park. The Hall stands above the Brook, looking south-west across its grounds to the hollow way which marks the main street of the deserted village of Baggrave (scheduled ancient monument). The area here registered is roughly 70 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

J Nichols, History and Antiquities of Leicester 3, part i, pp 288-90 (4 volumes, in 8 parts, 1795-1811, reprinted 1971)

Country Life, 111 (20 June 1952), pp 1908-11

M O'Hagan, An Architectural and Landscape History of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire (unpublished dissertation 1990)

Maps

Map of Hungarton, 1752 (Ma/153/6), (Leicestershire Record Office)

OS 6" to 1 mile: Leicestershire sheet 26 SE, 1st edition 1891

Sheet 26 SE, 2nd edition 1904; 1950 edition

Sheet 32 NE, 1st edition 1891; 2nd edition 1904; 1959 edition

OS 25" to 1 mile: sheet 32.3, 2nd edition 1904
 

Description written: June 1998

Edited: June 1999