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Brief description of site

Stanford Hall is a late-17th-century and early-18th-century park and formal landscape of 200 hectares. Part of the park has been converted into a caravan park.

Brief history of site

Roger Cave, who had inherited in 1670 and served as MP for Coventry in 1681 and 1685, built the present Hall on a new site in the last years of the 17th century. The stables were added in 1737 and the park was later landscaped and the kitchen garden added.

Location information:

Address: Stanford Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, LE17 6DH

Locality: Rugby

Local Authorities:

Leicestershire; Harborough

Historical County: Leicestershire

OS Landranger Map Sheet Number: 140 Grid Ref: SP587793
Latitude: 52.40856 Longitude: -1.13851

Key information:

Form of site: landscape park

Purpose of site: Ornamental

Context or principal building: house

Site first created: 1670 to 1733

Main period of development: Early 18th century

Survival: Extant

Site Size (Hectares): 200

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