Worksop Manor
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Worksop Manor is a stately home in the Dukeries area of Nottinghamshire.
It was the seat of the ancient Lords of Worksop.
A house was built in the late 16th century for the George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and probably designed by Robert Smythson. It was for some time the prison of Mary Queen of Scots. The building was burnt down in 1761.
James Paine was commissioned to build a replacement for the Elizabethan mansion. However, only one wing was completed and work stopped on the house in 1767.
It descended by marriage to the Duke of Norfolk, in whose family it remained until 1840.
Following a fire the estate was sold to the Duke of Newcastle of nearby Clumber Park for £375,000, who shortly afterwards commenced pulling down the mansion, as he was only interested in adding the land to his own estate.
All that remains today is the, still very substantial, servants wing.
