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Staveley Hall dates back over 400 years, but the site on which it's built on can be traced back to the Norman Conquest. As mentioned within the Doomsday Book, William the Conqueror rewarded Hascoit Musard de Bretagne and other members of his family with 25 Manors in six different counties in England, for their service in fighting in his army at the Battle of Hastings. Despite having that many Manors, Hascoit chose Staveley as his main family residence because he claimed it was the biggest and best.
The Staveley Hall we see today was built in 1604 by Sir Peter Frecheville on the same site his ancestors had lived for the past 500 years before him. The plaque above the front door displays the date 1604, his status as a Knight of the Realm, and the Coats of Arms of his father and mother, Peter Frecheville and Margaret Kaye.
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire leased the Hall out for a short time after 1682, but in 1710 his grandson Lord James Cavendish, an MP for Derby, moved into the Hall. When James died in 1751, Staveley Hall was set to be demolished, but was saved by Reverend James Gisborne, Rector of Staveley, who persuaded the Cavendish family to allow the Clergy to live there instead. The Church rented it as a Rectory for the next 200 years, and in the 1860s when Sir George Gilbert Scott did some work on Staveley Church, he also worked on parts of Staveley Hall too.
Staveley Hall has many other connections with key historical events and people, including the Brontës, the Gunpowder Plot and the English Civil War.
Many past residents of this sinister building are believed to still walk the hallways and rooms, from shadow figures and light anomalies, to taps, knocks and disembodied voices.
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