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  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    Pre 1066
    Although no records of a building on this land
    existed before 1646 there was most likely early Saxon farms.
  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    1066
    The Foljanbes Family travelled to Great Britain with William.
    The Conqueror and were given the land at Kelham & Averham,
    it isn't known whether they established a manor house at Kelham
    but it was certainly used for farming.
  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    1646
    Following Charles I's surrender to the Scottish during the Civil War in 1646,
    he was taken to and held at Kelham Hall. Hence the Kings Walk
    name on our path way where he would pace back and forth.
    At this point in time the hall would have looked very different from what you see today.
    Although no plans exist it would have been a Tudor style manor house.

    The Scots laid seige to Newark with over 16,000 men and after almost a year Newark
    surrendered. Following this Charles was taken to London and subsequently executed for treason.
  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    1728
    The Duchess of Rutland commissioned the Architect Sanderson to build a new Kelham Hall.
    This burnt down in 1837.
  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    1861
    Commissioned by the Manners Sutton Family, world renowned architect George Gilbert Scott
    designed Kelham Hall, it was one of his personal favourites and many of the features were
    also used in his masterpiece at St. Pancras Station & Hotel in London.
  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    1900
    Following bankruptcy of the the Manners Sutton Family,
    Kelham Hall was first sold to the Home Grown Sugar Beet Company,
    who used the farm land adjacent.
  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    1903
    Kelham Hall was purchased by the Monks of the Sacred Mission and used as a
    training centre. From here students would be sent across the world as missionaries,
    destinations included Australia, Africa, Korea and Japan.
  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    1974
    Kelham Hall was purchased by Newark and Sherwood District council.
  • Kelham Hall & Country Park Timeline
    2015
    Kelham Hall changed hands again in 2014 to Kelham Hall Ltd, who plan to turn
    the site into a tourist attraction, spa and luxury hotel.
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