Normanby Hall is a classic English

England

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 mansion

Mansion

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, located near the village of Burton-upon-Stather, 5 miles (8 km) north of Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe

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, North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

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.

The present Hall was built in 1825–30 to the designs of Robert Smirke

Robert Smirke (architect)

Sir Robert Smirke was an English architect, one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture his best known building in that style is the British Museum, though he also designed using other architectural styles...

 for Sir Robert Sheffield (1786–1862), whose family had lived on the site since 1539. It replaced a previous 17th century building. The family moved out of Normanby Hall in 1963. The Hall is now in the care of the North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

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 Council. The former 350 acre (1.4 km²) estate around the Hall is now a Country Park

Country park

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. Within it, there are a restored working Victorian

Victorian architecture

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 walled garden

Walled garden

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, a farming museum

Museum

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, a stableyard, duck pond

Duck pond

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s, a deer

Deer

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 sanctuary, a fishing

Fishing

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 lake

Lake

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, a miniature railway and broadleaf woodland.

Samantha Cameron

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, wife of the Conservative party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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, David Cameron

David Cameron

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, grew up on the Normanby Hall estate.

External links

• Normanby Hall Museum and Country Park - official site
• Normanby Hall - information