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Coordinates: 52°51′00″N 1°07′60″W / 52.85, -1.1333
Bunny is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish has a population of around 600. It is on the A60 seven miles south of Nottingham, south of Bradmore and north of Costock.
There has been a settlement on the site since pre-Norman times, perhaps as far back as the days of the Roman Empire. The parish church of St Mary is 14th century. The most significant building in the village is Bunny Hall, probably built in the 1570s and occupied by the Parkyns family for three hundred years. Sir Thomas Parkyns (1662-1741), known as the Wrestling Baronet, built what is now the present north wing to his own design c. 1723-25. He also built the school and almshouses. [1] The Hall was sold c. 1990, but remained unoccupied and had become semi-derelict by 2005. It was occupied and under restoration in 2006. A small section of the grounds now houses a new group of luxury homes.
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- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire.Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.
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