WOLLATON HALL

WOLLATON HALL

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Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan country house, in Nottingham, England.

Construction started in 1580, and was completed in 1588 for Sir Francis Willoughby,

On 21st June 1603 his son Sir Percival Willoughby hosted Anne of Denmark, and her children Prince Henry and Princess Elizabeth, at Wollaton.

The gallery of the main hall contains Nottinghamshire's oldest pipe organ, thought to date from the end of the 17th century.

It is still blown by hand.

Beneath the hall are many cellars and passages, and a well and associated reservoir tank, in which some accounts report that an admiral of the Willoughby family took a daily bath.

In 1881, the house was still owned by the head of the Willoughby family, Digby Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton.

The hall was then bought by Nottingham Council in 1925, and opened as a museum in 1926.

In 2011, key scenes from the Batman movie 'The Dark Knight' were filmed at Wollaton Hall.

The Hall is five miles north of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, through which Gotham City indirectly got its name.

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