Papplewick Hall, Mansfield, England

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

An 18th-century landscape park and pleasure grounds forming the setting for a late 18th-century house. The design for the parkland was possibly influenced by the owner's friends, William Mason, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, and Mrs Delaney.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Papplewick Hall is situated 10 kilometres north of Nottingham, north of the village of Papplewick, east of the village of Linby, and south-east of Newstead Abbey (see description of this site elsewhere in the Register). The registered site is roughly rectangular and comprises roughly 45 hectares. Part of the east boundary is Main Street while further to the north it runs parallel with Blidworth Waye, part of the B683. This latter was probably the old road from Nottingham to Mansfield which was replaced in 1787 by the new turnpike. The north boundary is an unclassified road which leads past Home Farm to the Old Quarry Banks. The west boundary runs south adjacent to the River Leen, then, further south, runs along the northern boundary of Iron Car Wood, continuing along a boundary plantation south to Church Plantation. The south boundary follows the southern edge of Church Plantation and Mill Pond Plantation, abutting the north side of the churchyard of St James' church, before running south-east to meet the east boundary at the lodge in the south-east corner of the site. Papplewick Hall looks west across the gently curving grassed valley, which frames the west view to the River Leen running north/south through the park. The Hall also enjoys a view of St James's church which stands 320 metres to the south-west.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

J Throsby, Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire republished with large additions (1790) [facsimile edition 1972]

A C Wood, A History of Nottinghamshire (1948, republished 1971)

Country Life, 134 (29 August 1963), pp 492-6; (5 September 1963), pp 540-3; (12 September 1963), pp 600-3

N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (2nd edition 1979), pp 287-8

B R Bruff (editor), The Village Atlas: The Growth of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire 1834-1904 (1990)

Papplewick Hall, guide leaflet, (no date)

G Oldfield, Papplewick's plantations and monuments (no date)

Maps

Plan of Papplewick and Linby, marking collieries and railways, mid-19th century (Nottinghamshire Archives)

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1915

Illustrations

Mrs Pendarves (later Mrs Delaney), Old Papplewick Hall, view of west front, 1742 (private collection) 

Description written: September 1999

Amended: November 1999

Edited: January 2002