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    A tricky inheritance

    Jun 02, 2021 0 minutes

    Brodsworth Hall is perhaps most famous for its part in the furore, not to mention the Thellusson Act of Parliament in 1800. In the care of trustees for half a century, it eventually passed to Peter's great-grandson Charles Sabine Thellusson in 1858, who swiftly demolished the Georgian building and built the Italianate-style hall that stands today. Charles's great-granddaughter gave the house and pleasure gardens to English Heritage in 1990. Less famously, the hall is home to the mummified hooves of the 1855 Doncaster Cup winner.

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