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4 unusual facts about Newstead Abbey


1814 in poetry

January - Lord Byron writes his semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair while snowed up at Newstead Abbey in England with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh.

Charles Fellows

When fourteen he drew sketches to illustrate a trip to the ruins of Newstead Abbey, which afterwards appeared on the title-page of Moore's Life of Lord Byron.

Newstead railway station

Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of Lord Byron is about two to three miles away and is served by this station.

Rachel Hudson

Her battered body was found 18 March 2004, in a rolled-up carpet on the grounds of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire.


Ruddington Hall

Ruddington Hall has the distinction of being included in the art work of Nikolaus Pevsner alongside the Elizabethan Wollaton Hall and Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of Lord Byron.


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