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Packington Hall

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It was severely damaged by fire in 1979 but has since been fully restored. The renovations were kept as near as possible to the original design.
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in 1751, who created a large serpentine lake called Hall Pool by joining up several old mill and fish ponds in front of the Hall.
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The house is not generally open to the public but is available by arrangement for conferences and functions.
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on whose death in 1729 the Packington estate passed to his daughter Mary Fisher, who married
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from 1766, with the work continuing after Brettingham's death in 1769 under
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road features a pair of wrought-iron gates which were presented to the
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Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred
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The world of the country house in seventeenth-century England
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Argent, a chevron vair between three demi-lions rampant gules
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Photos of Packington Hall and surrounding area on Geograph
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https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol4/pp180-183
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Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable
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Index

Packington Hall, Staffordshire
Packington Old Hall

mansion
Great Packington
Meriden
Warwickshire
England
Earl of Aylesford
Grade II listed building

Sir Clement Fisher
Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford

Capability Brown
3rd Earl of Aylesford
Matthew Brettingham
Henry Couchman
4th Earl of Aylesford
Palladian
Joseph Bonomi
John Francis Rigaud
3rd Earl of Aylesford
A45
Earl of Aylesford
manor house
Packington Old Hall
parish church
St James' Church, Great Packington
A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 4 (1947) from British History Online

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