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2 unusual facts about Ratcliffe on the Wreake


Ratcliffe on the Wreake

Ratcliffe Hall is a Grade II listed country house built circa 1812 by Robert Shirley, 7th Earl Ferrers and was inherited by his granddaughter, Caroline Shirley, Duchess Sforza Cesarini, who had married into the Italian aristocracy.

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In the same year at Ratcliffe, near Leicester, the foundations were laid for a novitiate designed by Pugin, but it became a school.



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