Bantock House Museum and Park
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Bantock House Museum and Park is a museum of Edwardian life and local history and park located in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. The park has 48 acres of land.
[edit] Brief history
The house now known as Bantock House is a Grade II listed building which was built in the 1730's as New Merridale Farm. It was extended and improved during occupancy by Thomas Herrick about the beginning of the 19th century and renamed Merridale House. The house had several tenants but in about 1864 was bought by Thomas Bantock, a canal and railway agent. His son Albert Baldwin Bantock, who was twice Mayor of Wolverhampton and also High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1920, further improved the property following his fathers death in 1896. On his own death without children in 1938 he bequeathed the house and park to the Wolverhampton Corporation. The house was renamed in 1940 in his honour.
[edit] Facilities
Bantock Park includes a play area for children, a small 18 hole golf course, a putting green, and football fields.
[edit] References
- Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service: Bantock House and Park
- Wolverhampton's Listed Buildings - Bantock House Museum, outbuildings and Bantock Park
- BBC: The Black Country: 360° views: Bantock House and Park
- Travel West Midlands: Bantock Park
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