Baron Hesketh
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Baron Hesketh, of Hesketh in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th Baronet, who had previously br
Rufford Old Hall, the original seat of the Hesketh family
Rufford Old Hall
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Rufford Old Hall is a National Trust property in Rufford, Lancashire, in north-west England. Built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries for the Hesketh family, only the great hall surviv
Baron Hesketh
…5th and last Earl of Pomfret. However, the house and all contents were sold by the current Baron in 2005. The original seat of the Hesketh family was Rufford Old Hall in the village of Rufford in Lancashire. This house was sold to the National Trust by the first Baron Hesketh in 1936. Easton Neston…
The great hall, the oldest surviving part of the house
Front view
The interior of the great hall, facing the wooden screen