Qualla: Worksop Manor https://qualla.com/worksop-manor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-manor-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Worksop Manor https://qualla.com/worksop-manor Worksop Manor: Introduction https://qualla.com/worksop-manor/ Photo credit John Preston Neale, Public domain. Of the four ducal houses that gave the Dukeries its name, Worksop Manor is the one that disappeared. Welbeck still stands. Clumber's lake and grand avenue survive. Thoresby still receives visitors. Worksop Manor was the most spectacular of them all - twice, in different centuries - and twice it was reduced almost to nothing. The first time was an accident. The second time was on purpose, and seems to have been done out of spite.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-manor-wp/gcrp-worksop-manor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Worksop Manor: A Prison for a Queen https://qualla.com/worksop-manor/ Photo credit Public domain. The Talbot family had been lords of Worksop since the 14th century, and in 1568 their manor house was where Mary, Queen of Scots was held during one of her long captivities in English custody. The house she knew was already old. In the 1580s the wealthy George Talbot, 6th Earl of...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-manor-wp/gcrp-worksop-manor-royal-houseguests.mp3 0:06 3 full Worksop Manor: Fire, Folly, and Gunpowder https://qualla.com/worksop-manor/ Photo credit Marcin Floryan, CC BY 2.5. The house passed by marriage to the Dukes of Norfolk and stayed in that family for over a century. Thomas Howard, 8th Duke, doubled its size in 1701. Edward Howard, the 9th, refined the gardens. In 1761 the renovated mansion of Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, burned to the groun...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/worksop-manor-wp/gcrp-worksop-manor-fire-folly-and-gunpowder.mp3 0:06 4 full Worksop Manor: What Survives https://qualla.com/worksop-manor/ Photo credit Willednic at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0. Out of the rubble a reduced but still substantial mansion was assembled from the stable block, the service wing, and what remained of the east end. It was leased to Lord Foley, then to a lead manufacturer, then sold at auction in 1890 to a Nottingham businessman who promptly fell...

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