Ashby_Folville_Manor

Ashby Folville Manor

Ashby Folville Manor

Gaddesby, Melton, Leicestershire, LE14

Ashby Folville Manor is a late 19th-century house in Neo-Tudor style in the village of Ashby Folville, Leicestershire. The house was substantially rebuilt in 1891-1893 by the architect John Ely of Manchester after a fire.[1]

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A camp for displaced people from Poland was established in a former US Army base in the grounds after World War II. The resettlement camp was occupied from 1948 until 1965.[2]

From 2004 - 2016 it was the home of Rosemary Conley.[3]

Notes and references

  1. [1]
    Pevsner, p. 56
  2. [2]
    "Polish reunion is resounding success", Melton Times 14 Sept 2010
  3. [3]
    "Conley's concert raises money for good causes" Leicester Mercury, 29 Aug 2011

Sources

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)

52.6997°N 0.9544°W / 52.6997; -0.9544
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