Bloxholm

Bloxholm

Church of St Mary, Bloxhom
Bloxholm
 Bloxholm shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid referenceTF065534
   – London 105 mi (169 km)  S
Unitary authorityNorth Kesteven
Ceremonial countyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Lincoln
Postcode district LN4
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentSleaford and North Hykeham
List of places
UK
England
Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 53°04′04″N 0°24′43″W / 53.067860°N 0.411975°W / 53.067860; -0.411975

Bloxholm is a hamlet, and part of the civil parish of Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm (where the population is included), in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west from the village of Digby.

Bloxholm Hall

Bloxholm Hall is a partially demolished early 18th-century country house of which the surviving north wing now serves as a Grade II listed farmhouse.[1]

It was built in 1707 for Septimus Cyprian Thornton and was acquired by the Duchess of Rutland, from whom it descended to General Lord Robert Manners (1721–1782). It was enlarged in 1772 by the addition of a north wing by architect Lewis Vulliamy. It passed to his son George Manners (1763–1828), High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1826, who further enlarged and renovated the hall to the designs of Vulliamy, adding a stable block (now also Grade II listed). He died unmarried, leaving the estate to his great-niece Mary, who married Robert Dundas, later Robert Nisbet-Hamilton, MP and Privy Counsellor. He died in 1887 leaving an only daughter Mary Georgiana, who predeceased him, having married Henry Olgilvy. [2] The Olgilvys had lived at one of their several Scottish homes and Bloxholm was sold.

The hall was abandoned in the 1940s and the older main wing demolished in 1963. The north wing is now a farmhouse.

References

  1. ↑ "Bloxholm Hall Farmhouse, Ashby De La Launde and Bloxholm". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Bloxholm Hall, park and gardens, Bloxholm". Lincs in the Past. Retrieved 18 April 2013.

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