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Coordinates: 51°45′59″N 0°21′19″W / 51.76636°N 0.35520°W / 51.76636; -0.35520
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Batchwood Hall

Batchwood Hall is a large country house in St Albans, Hertfordshire

History

The house was designed in the Queen Anne style and built by Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe in 1874.[1] It contains a miniature version of of the Great Clock in the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster.[2] The site was acquired by St Albans Council in 1935 when a golf course was established in the grounds and the house became an event venue in the 1970s.[3] An arson attack in August 2011 led to the complete destruction of the Batchwood Tennis and Golf Centre.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Batchwood Hall". St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological History Society. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  2. ^ "About Batchwood Hall". Batchwood Hall Golf Club. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Club Batchwood: the spooky past behind St Albans favourite nightclub". Hertfordshire Advertiser. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Four arrested on suspicion of arson following St Albans sports centre fire". Hertfordshire Advertiser. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2017.

51°45′59″N 0°21′19″W / 51.76636°N 0.35520°W / 51.76636; -0.35520

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