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.