Rye House, Hertfordshire
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Rye House in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire is a former fortified manor house, located in what is now the Lee Valley Regional Park. The 15th-century gatehouse is the surviving part of the structure and is a
The gatehouse of Rye House, the only surviving part of the manor house
The moat and gatehouse
Engraving from 1777, showing the gatehouse brickwork before restoration. By 1795 some of this brickwork had gone.
View from the road (1777 engraving), facing south-west
Great Bed of Ware
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The Great Bed of Ware is an extremely large oak four poster bed, carved with marquetry, that was originally housed in the White Hart Inn in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. Built by Hertfordshire carpent
Rye House, Hertfordshire
…features. An affray there in 1885 between Catholic excursionists and Orangemen led to a question in the House of Commons. In 1870, Teale acquired the Great Bed of Ware and put it to use in his pleasure garden. In 1911 it was described as a hotel. After interest in the garden waned in the 1920s, the bed was bought by…
Bed of Ware