Charlecote Park
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Charlecote Park is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon in Charlecote near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.
View toward the front in 2017
Thomas Lucy
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Sir Thomas Lucy was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1585. He was a magistrate in Warwickshire, but is best known for his links to William Shakespeare. As a Protestant
Charlecote Park
…II* in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens. The Lucy family owned the land from 1247. Charlecote Park was originally built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the original Elizabethan house remains, the…
Effigies of Sir Thomas Lucy and his wife, Joyce Acton, St. Leonard's church, Charlecote
Charlecote Park circa 1880
Shakespeare Before Thomas Lucy by Thomas Brooks, a typical Victorian portrayal of the poaching story
Thomas Lucy's coat of arms, depicting "luces" (pike), from William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire