Bentworth Hall
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Bentworth Hall in 2012
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 Location within Hampshire
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| General information | |
| Location | Bentworth, Hampshire |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 51°08′52″N 1°03′00″W / 51.147778°N 1.05°W |
| Completed | 1832 |
Bentworth Hall is a large country manor in the parish of Bentworth in Hampshire, England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the centre of Bentworth and about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Alton, its nearest town. The previous Bentworth Hall (or Bentworth Manor House), now called Hall Place, was built in the early 14th century and is a Grade II listed building 100m South of the village green. The present day Bentworth Hall is surrounded by woodland and was built in 1832. This was after Roger Staples Horman Fisher purchased the Bentworth Manor estate and built a new mansion about 0.8 miles (1.3 km) south of the previous Bentworth Hall.
In 1832, the Bentworth Hall estate of about 500 acres was sold at Garraway’s Coffee House in London by the Fitzherbert family to Roger Staples Horman Fisher for about £6000. The Fitzherberts were relatives of Maria Fitzherbert, the (illegal) wife of the Prince Regent, later George IV (illegal because Maria Fitzherbert was a Roman Catholic and banned by Act of Parliament from marrying into the Royal Family). Horman Fisher then started building the current Bentworth Hall on what was then open downland about 1 km to the south at 51°8′52″N 1°3′0″W / 51.14778°N 1.05000°W, access being from an 800-metre private drive from the Bentworth-Medstead road.
In 1848 the Bentworth Hall estate was sold to Jeremiah Robert Ives, including the Old Manor House (now Hall Place) and the 1832 Bentworth Hall. The Ives family later included George Cecil Ives who lived for a time at Bentworth Hall with his widowed mother, Emma. In 1890, her son, Colonel Gordon Maynard Gordon-Ives built and lived in Gaston Grange, about 1.2 km to the East of Bentworth Hall.
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