Appleby Hall
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| Former names | Appleby House, Town House, Appleby Parva Manor |
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| Architectural style | Classical |
| Town or city | Appleby Parva/Appleby Magna, Leicestershire |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52°40′39″N 1°32′28″W / 52.67750°N 1.54111°WCoordinates: 52°40′39″N 1°32′28″W / 52.67750°N 1.54111°W |
| Construction started | 1832 |
| Completed | 1838 |
| Demolished | 1920s |
| Client | George Moore (1811–1871) |
Appleby Hall was a Manor house or Stately Home built in the small hamlet of Appleby Parva, on the outskirts of Appleby Magna.
A Manor was mentioned in the Domesday Book and there have been several houses on the site until the final building, a Classical style Stately Home known as Appleby Hall, was built in the 1830s.
Like many landed families, the Moore family who owned it fell on hard times, and the Hall was demolished in the 1920s.
The Hamlet of Appleby Parva is originally thought to have been a Danish settlement. Listed in the Domesday Book as Apleberie, after the Battle of Hastings the Manor was given to the Norman, Henry De Ferrers, with his son Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby acting as Lord.
Nothing is known of the early Manor, or Manors on the site.
The Manor of Appleby Parva was purchased by the Moore Family at the very end of the 16th century and would remain in their possession until the start of the 20th century. Over this time the family demolished the existing manor house and built and extended their new house to become Appleby Hall. The direct line of the Moores as lords of the manor failed three times, and the family were not in constant occupation at the Hall.
The family came to own much of the land in the Parish of Appleby Magna, as well as Snarestone Lodge in a neighbouring village, Kentwell Hall in Suffolk and land in (and the Lordship of) Bentley, Warwickshire.
The most famous member of the family was Sir John Moore. As a second (and thus non-inheriting) son, he went to London to make his own fortune, becoming a merchant, an MP, and later Lord Mayor and Alderman of London. He contributed large sums to the erection of schools at Christ's Hospital, and founded a free grammar school in Appleby Magna, now called Sir John Moore Church of England Primary School. He died aged 81, on 2 June 1702, leaving his estates, worth £80,000 (£6,247,200 today), to his two nephews living in Appleby Parva.
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