Looking out toward what used to be Stantonbury Manor, which is now just a field, although the Church of St. Peter still remains.
Belonging to the national trust, they’ve just planted a tree from a cutting of the sycamore on sycamore gap, Hadrian’s Wall, which was felled by vandals a couple of years ago.
Wondered what the guys were doing putting the big fence up around it…it’s so they don’t cut it down again.
Stantonbury Manor
Another one of these stately homes that came to nothing. Seem to be pretty common for these parts….
This one was wiped out by fire less than 120 years after it was first opened in 1658, from what I can make out.
Only the church remains which was in usage right up to the 1950’s.
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