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unusual facts about Ashbourne Hall


Ashbourne Hall

The Cockayne family's Ashbourne Hall was built during the reign of Henry III in the 13th Century.



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Boothby baronets

The Boothbys left Broadlow Ash when the first Baronet purchased Ashbourne Hall from Sir Aston Cockayne in about 1671.

Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet

Ashbourne Hall was leased in 1814 (parish records show that in 1817 Sir Richard Arkwright's grandson, also Richard, was living there) and he settled in diminished circumstances in Boulogne in 1815 and died there in 1824.