Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NOSTAL

NOSTAL, a hamlet in Wragby parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the West Riding and Grimsby railway, 5¼ miles S E of Wakefield. It has a station on the railway . An Augustinian priory was founded here in 1121, by Ralph Adlove, chaplain to Henry I.; superseded a hermitage, with an oratory and a small hall; acquired circumjacent land from Robert de Lacy, owner of the manor of Pontefract; and was purchased, about the middle of the 17th century, by George Winn, Esq. A mansion, called No tal Priory, was built near the site of the old priory, in the beginning of the 18th century, by Sir Roland Winn; is now the seat of Charles Winn, Esq.; stands on a rising-ground, in a beautiful park of 250 acres, with an elm-avenue about a mile long, and a lake of about 40 acres; and contains a fine collection of paintings, one of which is Holbein's famous " Sir Thomas More and his Family." Wragby church stands in thepark.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wragby AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Nostell

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