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Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire Sudbury Hall is a country house in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England. Sudbury Hall is one the country's finest Restoration mansions and has Grade I listed building status. The Vernon family came to Sudbury as a result of the 16th-century marriage of Sir John Vernon to Ellen Montgomery the Sudbury heiress. The house was built between 1660 and 1680 by George Vernon, grandfather of George Venables-Vernon the 1st Baron Vernon and is notable for its superb Great Staircase, fine Long Gallery, and portraits by John Michael Wright, and of Charles II's mistresses. Inside there are a mixture of architectural styles with carvings by Grinling Gibbons and Edward Pearce, murals by Louis Laguerre and elaborate plasterwork by Samuel Mansfield, James Pettifer and Robert Bradbury. The carvings above the main entrance porch were sculpted by William Wilson. There are formal gardens with a tree-fringed lake. Cherry Ann Knott has suggested that the design of the hall was based on Crewe Hall in Cheshire, which stands around 1.5 miles from Haslington Hall, where George Vernon was born.[1] The house was also used for the internal Pemberley scenes in the BBC dramatisation (1995) of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The property was leased for three years from 1840 by Queen Adelaide, the widow of William IV of the United Kingdom. The east wing was added by George Devey in 1876–83.[2] The building is now owned and maintained by the National Trust.[3] to whom it was gifted by the Vernon family in 1967.	Pride & Prejudice Sudbury house was grant with a lot of land but originally not built by a lord. It seemed to be very grand and expensive for someone without title! Grand enough to be use for the shooting of the movie Pride and Prejudice. According the the docent, the original head of the family was an illegitimate son of William the Conquer!
	Front of the house

Typical interior work	The great stair case

View from the main rooms	Long gallery where many scenes of Pride & Prejudice were shot

The real front	Very symetrical

Nice lawn	Your local "High Class Family Butcher"

The village was part of the estate	The family still owns the village including the pub

No. 10 school Lane	Post office and general store

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Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire

Pride & Prejudice