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a Historic Building in the town of Rufford, in the county of Lancashire

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About Rufford Old Hall

Rufford Old Hall was presented to the National Trust in 1936 by Lord Hesketh. The Old Hall is a medieval manor house of splendid proportions, it has a great hall measuring 46ft long by 22ft wide, with an ornate hammerbeam roof and a rare 15th-century carved screen. The great hall was probably built in around 1480, and the east wing of 1662 shows fine Jacobean brickwork. However, for many the exterior beauty of the house lies in its original decorative black and white timber work.

A special blessing of the Old Hall lies in the fact that the lovely interior has seemingly escaped the hand of time. Looking around you immediately sense that this is a house built and furnished to impress. There is stunning stained glass, fine collections of 17th-century oak furniture, a magnificent Tudor tester bed, court and linen-press cupboards. There are tapestries, rare books, paintings and family coats of arms.

The Hesketh family have a long and colourful history, one occupant during the first half of the 16th-century was said to be an illegitimate son, and there is talk of an association in 1580 between Sir Thomas Hesketh and William Shakespeare, who may have acted in entertainments given at the hall.

In the grounds the Philip Ashcroft Folk Museum is housed in converted outbuildings. Here visitors can explore a wonderful range of objects and costume that demonstrate life as it was lived in the village when the Old Hall was first built.
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Recommended towns near Rufford Old Hall

Rufford, in the county of Lancashire (0.2 miles, 0.3 km)
Noted for its picturesque late-medieval manor house Rufford Old Hall, the village of Rufford occupies a fine setting on the fertile Lancashire Plains.
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Croston, a Picturesque Village in the county of Lancashire (2.3 miles, 3.7 km, direction NE)
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This attractive village was mentioned in the Doomsday Book. It is perhaps best known for the evocative ruins of St. Catherine's Church.
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Rainford, in the county of Merseyside (9.5 miles, 15.3 km, direction S)
Rainford is a small village attractively set in open countryside between St. Helen's and Wigan.
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Wigan is a sociable town with a long history, it received it's Royal charter in the middle of the 13th-century, but prior to that the Roman's had built a settlement here.
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Preston, in the county of Lancashire (9.8 miles, 15.8 km, direction NE)
This is the town that was at the centre of the cotton spinning industry for well over a hundred and fifty years.
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Hoghton, in the county of Lancashire (11.2 miles, 18.0 km, direction NE)
It was here that James I created "Sirloin" when he supposedly knighted his beef!
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Lytham St Anne's, in the county of Lancashire (11.8 miles, 19.0 km, direction NW)
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Nearby travel help

Rufford Station	(0.5 miles, 0.7 km)
Croston Station	(2.4 miles, 3.9 km, direction NE)
M6 Junction 27	(5.9 miles, 9.6 km, direction SE)
M6 Junction 28	(6.8 miles, 11.0 km, direction NE)
Blackpool Airport	(13.1 miles, 21.1 km, direction NW)
Liverpool John Lennon Airport	(21.2 miles, 34.1 km, direction S)
Rufford Old Hall to London	(185.7 miles, 298.7 km, direction SE)

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Rufford Arms Hotel	(0.9 miles, 1.5 km)
The Quality Hotel Chorley	(3.0 miles, 4.9 km, direction NE)
Beaufort Hotel	(4.4 miles, 7.0 km, direction SW)
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Crimond Hotel	(7.6 miles, 12.2 km, direction W)
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