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Bispham Hall is a Grade II listed Elizabethan country house near Billinge in Lancashire. The hall was built in 1573 but has been extended since. Despite interior damage caused by fire, the hall remains one of the most complete examples of 16th-century architecture in Lancashire. The surrounding park, at one time much larger than the 60-acre estate which exists today, had extensive woodlands which contain an 1815 monument to the Duke of Wellington. It was named after the Bispham family who acquired the estate by marriage in 1346 and held it until 1730. It then passed to the Leigh family of Whitley Hall, Wigan. In 1825 the property had descended to John Holt who left the property to William Mills and then to his son William. When he dies in 1857, the state was left to be divided between his six sisters, whereby it was sold in 1871 to coal-producer Meyrick Holmes Bankes of Winstanley Hall. The Bispham estate was acquired by the Boy Scout Association in 1948 as an activity centre. The hall itself was gutted by a fire in 1977 or 1978, but has been since restored by the Vivat Trust and is now privately owned. It is within the council area of Wigan.
Historic England Grade II* Listed 1068434.

Place Type: Tudor House
Historic County: Lancashire
Lat, Long: 53.516724,-2.7201477
Grid Reference: SD523024
Police Area: Greater Manchester
Council Area: Wigan
Country: England

GBPNID: 299934
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Bispham_Hall,_Lancashire_299934

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