Wollaton Hall museum Wollaton Park Nottingham Nottinghamshire England UK GB Europe


Wollaton Hall was built between 1580 and 1588 for Sir Francis Willoughby and is believed to be designed by the Elizabethan architect, Robert Smythson, who had by then completed Longleat in Wiltshire and was to go on to design Hardwick Hall in hall was bought by Nottingham City Council in 1925 and opened as a museum in 1926, becoming home to George the Gorilla, Hilary the Hippopotamus and Geoffrey the 2011 Wollaton Hall stars as Wayne Manor in the Christopher Nolan film, The Dark Knight Rises. Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine are all on set. The Hall is five miles north of Gotham, Nottinghamshire from which Gotham City got its name.


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