Nunnington Hall History
Nunnington Hall is a country house situated in the English county of North Yorkshire. There has been a house on this site since the early 1200's, the present building is a combination of seventeenth and eighteenth century work. Major changes took place during the early 1920s, under the architect Walter Brierley. Most of the building seen today was created during the 1680s, when Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston, was its owner. Nunnington Hall is now owned, conserved and managed as a visitor attraction by the National Trust.
Over a hundred years ago, the wife of the Lord of Nunnington died, he was left to raise their young son on his own. Before long, the Lord of Nunnington got married again. His new wife was a very beautiful lady, but she was also very selfish and spiteful especially towards the staff.
Soon, the lady fell pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy. She loved her own son, but hated her stepson and treated him very poorly. She knew the Lord was ill and going to die soon, and she wanted her own son to inherit Nunnington Hall.
When the Lord of Nunnington died a few years later, the lady became very cruel to her stepson and locked him in an attic room. She kept him imprisoned in the tiny confined space, feeding him a diet of bread and water and forbidding anyone to visit him.
She kept a very strict watch over everyone in the household and the sound of her step was never heard as she moved about. Because she trod so lightly, all that was heard was the rustle of her silk gown. The lady had a taste for fine things and always dressed in expensive silks and satins, while her stepson had scarcely food to eat or warm clothes to wear.
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