- Cantley Hall
Cantley Hall is a Georgian
mansion set in 160 hectares [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:cQ8d2-heuG4J:www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/21/1092972820786.html%3Ffrom%3Dstoryrhs+%22cantley+hall%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&client=safari] , in the village of Old Cantley just outsideDoncaster ,South Yorkshire .Early history
Cantley Hall was probably a home from around the 7th or 8th century, owned by a Saxon called Tochi prior to the conquest of
England by theNormans in 1066, after which it probably went to the Everingham's or Everingham Ancestors. By 1209 it was known as Kanteleia, and Cauntele in 1246. By 1280 it was in the possession ofRobert de Everingham . By the late 15th century the name of Cantley had been established and remained [http://www.everingham.com/family/data2/cantley.html Cantley Hall ] ] , while the residents of the estate were the Smith family [http://blunham.com/CDroms/pdf/DoncasterSmiths.pdf] .Childers family
In 1610,
Hugh Childers the Mayor of Doncaster from 1604, add Cantley Hall to the existing families traditional home at Carr House, by buying the estate from the Stapleton family. In 1714 Leonard Childers of Cantley Hall bred the famous stallion "Flying Childers ," son of "Darley Arabian ." Although "Flying Childers" was later sold to theDuke of Devonshire , he was never beaten and is still regarded as one of the fastest horses ever raced. He later retired toChatsworth House ,Derbyshire although he mainly covered mares owned by the Duke, as he was too far away from the main breeding centre ofYorkshire [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series4/racing_calke_abbey.shtml BBC Inside Out - Thoroughbreds at Calke Abbey ] ] [ [http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/hist_pre_1800.htm Historical Overview Pre-1800 ] ] . Between 1785 and 1786, Childers Walbank Childers remodelled Cantley Hall into an impressive country mansion, known for some time as Cantley Lodge, and created the shooting forestBlack Carr Plantation [https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Leisure_in_Doncaster/Outdoor_Life/Woods_and_Country_Parks/Enjoy_Black_Carr_Plantation.asp Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council | Enjoy Black Carr Plantation ] ] . His son William Walbanke Childers was later Canon of Ely from 1803 to 1833http://www.farleys.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/docs/Full_History.pdf] . By the mid-1800s,John Walbanke Childers (1798-1886) owned 5700 acres in the Riding (ie - Cantley Hall estate), 7400 inCambridgeshire and 200 inLincolnshire [ [http://ccgi.who-owns-britain.com/wobi/wob005.pgm?ownerid=677 Who Owns Britain (and Ireland) ] ] [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266(196604)81%3A319%3C256%3AWRLATC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K] ; while his brother Charles Childers was Rector of Armthorpe from 1833 to 1843. In 1893 Mrs Childers, a staunch Anglo-Catholic, was patron for the refurbishment of Cantley Church bySir John Ninian Comper [ [http://www.ecclsoc.org/ET.36.pdf Ecc Today No 36 Complete ] ] .After 1901
In 1901 the Childers family sold Cantley Hall and its residual 5,000acres [ [http://www.doncasterfhs.co.uk/churches/sprotborough.htm Sprotborough ] ] to the Fitzwilliam family for extraction of its
coal reserves, and left for theirCambridgeshire estate.After
World War II , the Fitzwilliam family faced with quickly declining revenues from their land, started selling off parts of the estate, including Black Carr Plantation in 1950 to Oates Brothers Timber Merchants. By the late 1980s, Cantley Hall was occupied by an old lady relative of the Fitzwilliams and owners ofDoncaster Brewery [ [http://www.childers-childress.com/curry.html The Childers ~ Childress Family Association Childress Genealogy ] ] . After she died in 1988, a sale of contents was held [ [http://www.a2a.org.uk/about/contributors/197-list.asp A2A - Access to Archives | Doncaster Archives Department ] ] , and the house sold to car magnate John Carnell.In 1990, Carnell sold Cantley Hall to
Graham Kirkham , later Baron Kirkham of Old Cantley, founder and chairmen ofsofa retailer Dfs [ [http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=58&ArticleID=213946 Sofa king sitting pretty on £315m pile - The Star ] ] .References
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