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5 unusual facts about Pype Hayes Hall


Pype Hayes

Pype Hayes Hall remains today and is currently being auctioned by Birmingham City Council as of February 2012 it is still for sale.

All the land in Pype Hayes was owned as part of an estate with Pype Hayes Hall at its centre.

On this land he built a house which later developed into Pype Hayes Hall.

Pype Hayes Hall

The poet Robert Southey (1774–1843) worked at the Hall on his 1833 biography of William Cowper, a friend of the Bagots.

The history of the Manor of Pype is obscure, however it seems that the Manor was part of the dower of Dorothy Arden, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Arden of Berwood (now Castle Vale), on her marriage in about 1625 to Hervey Bagot, second son of Sir Hervey Bagot, 1st Baronet.



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