Hazlewood Castle
Hazlewood Castle is a country house between Aberford and Tadcaster in English administrative unit North Yorkshire . Today it is used as a hotel. English Heritage has listed it as a historical building of the 1st degree.
From here one could see the battlefield of the Battle of Towton in 1461 and was a refuge for Catholic priests during the persecution of Catholics in the reign of Henry VIII .
history
The first records of a house at this point can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086. It says that it belonged to a Sir Mauger the Vavasour ("Vavasour" is a kind of sub-tenant) and that he lived there. Hazlewood then remained in the hands of descendants of the Vavasour family for over 900 years . In the Second War of the Barons (1264–1267), the house was burned down by an enemy branch of the family. In 1283 Sir William Vavasour had it rebuilt and in 1290 it was fortified.
In 1217 Robert Vavasour was the Sheriff of York and a statue of him was placed on the gate of York Minster to commemorate his donation of stones from his quarry in Tadcaster for the preservation of the cathedral .
Sir William Vavasour (1514-1566) was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1548 and 1563 and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Yorkshire in 1553. His son, John Vavasour , hosted Queen Mary of Scots on the night of January 27th to 28th, 1569 , when she came through Wetherby on her way from Bolton Castle to Tutbury Castle .
John Vavasour was convicted of Catholicism in 1610. His nephew and heir, William Vavasour , was incarcerated in Newgate Prison for five years for the same reason. William's son, Thomas Vavasour , was sentenced to pay an annual fine, even though he was made a baronet in 1628. The second baronet was a royalist in the English Civil War and was forced to flee to France , from where he did not return until 1660, after the Stuart Restoration .
The house was completely modernized under the 6th Baronet. With the death of the 7th Baronet in 1826, the title of baronet lapsed and the property fell to Edward Stourton , a distant relative. In 1828 he took the name Vavasour and was appointed 1st Baronet Vavasour (second appointment). In 1908 the Vavasour family sold Hazlewood Castle and used the proceeds to buy a winery in Awatere , New Zealand . After that, the owners of the property changed frequently. At first it belonged to a solicitor manes '' Simpson '', whose family owned it until 1953. During the Second World War and then until 1953, however, the house served as a maternity hospital . Then it belonged to the Fawcett family for a few years and was sold to Donald Hart in 1958 , who in turn resold it in 1971 as a retirement home for Carmelite Brothers. In 1996 the house was resold and in 1997, after restoration, it opened as the Hazlewood Castle Hotel-Restaurant-Cafe and Cooking School under the direction of Richard Carr , John Benson-Smith and Alison Benson-Smith . Hazlewood Castle won Hotel of the Year , Restaurant of the Year and Chef of the Year awards . Chef John Benson-Smith also served as a judge on the BBC Master Chef .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vavasour, Sir William (1514-66), of Hazlewood, Yorks . History of Parliament Online. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
- ^ Joseph Bain: (Editor): Calendar State Papers Scotland . Volume 2 (1900). Pp. 605, 612.
- ↑ THE VAVASOURS OF HAZLEWOOD CASTLE . July 2007. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
- ^ History of Hazlewood Castle . Archived from the original on November 2, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '8.3 " N , 1 ° 19' 9.1" W.