Sir Thomas Parkyns, 2nd Baronet was an English writer, landowner, architect and engineer who was a prominent figure in British wrestling during the Georgian era.
A 1713 engraving of Parkyns
The Old School, Bunny, with armorial inscription
Costock
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Costock is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 664 in 1998, and reported at the 2011 census as 621. T
Sir Thomas Parkyns, 2nd Baronet
…castellated tower which interpenetrates with a hugh segmental pediment." Parkyns constructed manor-houses at Bunny, East Leake, and Highfield Grange, Costock: the one at East Leake has not survived. He built also a park wall three miles in length, the first of the kind in England supported wholly on arches…
St Giles' Church