On Bradford’s Trail: Scrooby Manor

Only a small section of Scrooby Manor has survived rebuilt as a farmhouse – at even that has been debated

The door

Behind the surviving building the are several indents in the ground which were fishponds in the Manor’s glory days

Scrooby originally would have looked much like Gainsborough Old Hall, far more of which survives

The Great Hall at Gainsborough

Over the hundreds of years the building has got quite out of level

A private room at Gainsborough

Joshua Horn

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