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The buyer was a Canon R.F. Wilkinson, who quickly sold it again, it was then used by the
Ministry of Health for a short period, before being demolished by 1952. The site of the hall itself now contains a number of steel and concrete agricultural buildings (as part of a poultry farm) of little
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English style, with gable ends and mullion windows, had been erected at Grove at a period which is not known, and had since undergone considerable alterations. During the wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the Hercy family, with their neighbours the
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rears its venerable head, and overlooks the vast Plains which extend themselves until the ocean terminates their bounds". To the west the view is equally extensive, the ancient forest of
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The situation of Grove Hall, is said to be the most elevated and picturesque in the
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A range of earthworks of unknown origin date, but may include some pre-historic and/or Roman influences, with strong evidence of medieval (a moated site or possibly a
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