Rothamsted Manor

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The Rothamsted Manor House , a manor house in the English town of Harpenden
Outbuildings
The Centenary Building opened in 2003 . More than two thirds of the scientists at Rothamsted Research work here .

Rothamsted Manor is a manor house in the English town of Harpenden . It is located about 40 km north of London in the county of Hertfordshire . During the Middle Ages it was a manor ( English manor ). In World War II , a major was there radio listening station ( English Y station of the) British intelligence .

history

The property is first mentioned in 1212 when it was acquired by Henry Gubion. In 1292 ownership changed to William Nowell, who sold it to Ralph de Creci in 1355. Through the marriage of his heiress Elizabeth Cressy to Edmund Bardolph in 1519, it came into the possession of the Bardolph family before it was acquired in 1623 by Anne Wittewronge, widow of Jacob Wittewronge, on behalf of her then four-year-old son John. John became Lord of the Manor of Rothamsted in 1639 and inherited the property through the family. On December 28, 1814, John Bennet Lawes was born in the house. He later founded the Rothamsted Experimental Station , today's Rothamsted Research .

Rothamsted Manor and the surrounding gardens were bought by the Lawes-Wittewronge family for £ 35,000 in the 1930s . During World War II it was requisitioned and in a radio listening station ( station Y ) of the British Government Code and Cypher School (GC & CS) ( German about "Government Code and Cipher School") converted and served as Harpenden Y station ( German  "radio listening station Harpenden" ) .

After the war it served as a guest house for a while and is now an exclusive event location in Harpenden.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Y Service 1939-1945 (English). Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ Rothamsted Manor History (English). Retrieved April 24, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 21 ″  N , 0 ° 22 ′ 9 ″  W.