Breadsall Priory
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Breadsall Priory is a former priory in Derbyshire. A house of the Friars Eremites, founded, it is said, by the Dethick family, about the middle of the 13th Century, and subsequently converted into an Augustinian priory.
The physician and poet Erasmus Darwin moved there shortly before his death in 1802 and his son Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786 - 1859) lived there subsequently. Sir Francis' son Edward Levett Darwin, author of under the pseudonym High Elms of the Gameskeeper's Manual, learnt natural history in its grounds.
It is currently a Marriott hotel with a golf course. It has grade II listed status. The nearest villages are Breadsall, Little Eaton and Morley. Grid reference
External links
- http://marriott.co.uk/Channels/globalSites/propertypage/UK/emags
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