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To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

Watnall Woods on old maps - The Slade & the old mining tramways

Watnall's Sherlock Holmes and the prank that brought down the ancient gallows...

Watnall Hall graves – Torbreck, the Scottish Connection

Biography of Colonel Lancelot Rolleston MP (1785-1862)

Colonel Rolleston and the Battle of Mapperley Hills

The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

Lancelot Rolleston, the schoolboy squire - his formative years…

The Lost Fortune of the Rollestons, Lords of the Manor on a Shoestring…

"To the castle!" - the Nottingham riots of 1831

Capt. Rolleston's tragedy and the burning of Nottingham Castle

Mr. Rolleston and the Pentrich Rebellion

Origins of the “Watnall Troop” of the South Notts Yeomanry