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28 de marzo de 2025
If like us you are visiting the twin villages of Upper and Lower Slaughter, the Manor House is just a quick look-see as you walk past. Today it functions as a hotel and restaurant so general access is limited. You can see the house and its grounds from the roadside but it’s set back so it’s a slightly distant view. This Grade-II listed house was, several centuries ago, used as a convent but by the 17th century, the Crown had seized it and in 1611, by King James I granted to Sir George Whitmore, a haberdashery merchant and Lord Mayor of London in 1631. It was some gift. We wondered what he'd done to deserve it. We were interested to see the house because we had just come from the small parish church of St Mary’s where we’d seen the Whitmore family memorials and burial plaques The manor stayed in the Whitmore family until 1964.
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