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The Mansion House
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6 Regent Terrace
William Hurst was born in 1787, his father being the landlord of the Salutation Inn. William Hurst was articled, as a young man, to a respected local architect, William Lindley, of the Pillared Houses, South Parade, William Lindley had been an assistant to John Carr of York for many years before he moved to Doncaster to establish his own practice.
Nether Hall House
This house, within the township of Doncaster, and closely bordering upon the town, was for many generations the seat of one part of the great Yorkshire
family of Copley, who acquired this and other estates from the Harringtons and Sewers....On the death of Mr. Copley in 1810 the Nether Hall estate descended, pursuant to settlements which had been made of it, to Edward Wolley, then of York, a son of the rev. Godfrey Wolley, who had been rector of Thurnscoe and Warmsworth, and grandson to Edward Wolley, formerly rector of Sprotborough.
Mr. Wolley assumed the surname of Copley. On his death, on 15 November 1813, Nether Hall descended to his only son, Edward Thomas Copley, esq. who has lately married Emily, daughter of sir John Peniston Milbank, of Halnaby,
baronet''....
The Green & Virtual Plaque Walk was created by the
Doncaster Civic Trust.
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Red Boxes = Virtual Plaques