Wingfield Manor

United Kingdom / England / Ambergate-Crich /
 ruins, prison, interesting place, Grade I Listed (UK), scheduled ancient monument, English Heritage
Imposing ruin in the care of English Heritage and open to the public *by arrangement*.

See: www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConProperty.74

See: www.britannia.com/history/chouses/wingfdad.html

Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned here in 1569 by Queen Elizabeth I, in the custody of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (one of Bess of Hardwick's many husbands).

See: www.marie-stuart.co.uk/index.htm

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_Scotland

Wingfield Manor has been used as a location in several films, notably standing in for a blazing 'Thornfield' in Zeferelli's 1996 movie of Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre'.

See: www.imdb.com/title/tt0116684/

See: www.peak-experience.org.uk/tourism/explore-the-guides/p...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfield_Manor
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Coordinates:   53°5'19"N   1°26'33"W
This article was last modified 11 years ago