Markenfield Hall is 3 miles south of Ripon in north Yorkshire. It is a moated Tudor Manor House surrounded by farmland
The Domesday Book of 1086 records two households at Markenfield. In 1150 the estate was held by the Le Bret family who had a house there and adopted the name de Markenfield. The present house was built for John de Markenfield, an associate of Piers Gaveston and a servant of Edward II. The Crown granted a licence to crenellate Markenfield in 1310, the same year that John was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer.[7] Sir Thomas Markefield was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1484 and fought on the side of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. In 1569 Thomas de Markenfield was involved in the pro-Catholic Rising of the North and fled to the Continent. Markenfield was confiscated and granted to Thomas Egerton, Master of the Rolls. Egerton never made Markenfield his main home. It devolved to a rented farmhouse but retained its features. In 1761 Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley bought the house, replaced the roof of the Great Hall and ensured that the house was structurally sound once more. It descended to the 7th Baron Grantley who began a restoration project in 1980 to convert the hall from a farmhouse into a family home.
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Location: Ripon North Yorkshire England
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