Thoresby Hall Hotel

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£389 per person

There’s so much you can do on our five day four night break at this popular Warner Leisure Hotel. We have half board accommodation and there’s fabulous entertainment each evening too.

The Great Hall, the main building, the Victorian rose garden, even dinner in The Sherwood are all very grand, but still very relaxing. Take a leisurely look round Thoresby Courtyard, where you’ll find craft shops, the Military Museum and a garden centre conveniently set in the grounds. Try shooting or falconry, take a dip in the pool or treat yourself to a professional pamper session in our outstanding spa. If dancing is for you, there’ll be ample opportunities to whirl around the dance floor.

There’s lots of organised activities you can join or treat yourself to the relaxing spa.

We’ll take you by coach to the hotel and there’s two excursions included as well.

The cost of this event includes luxury transport to and from the hotel, half board accommodation for four nights, two excursions from the hotel (to be arranged) and, of course, treats.

You can upgrade to a Signature Room for £5 per person, per night – based on doubles and twins

You can upgrade to an Historic Room for £15 per person, per night

Single Supplement – £120 per stay

Deposit – £20 and the balance payment will be due by 16th January 2017.

 

History of the Hotel

From wherever you view it, Thoresby Hall is an architectural delight. A sumptuous riot of bays and balconies, gables and galleries and as sublime a slice of Grade I-listed Revival exuberance as you’ll find in the whole of Britain, let alone here at the edge of glorious and ancient Sherwood Forest.

But although what you can enjoy today is archetypal Victoriana, its history is telling. For Thoresby Hall is a noteworthy part of The Dukeries: a tract of forest land belonging jointly to the Dukes of Portland, Newcastle and to the house’s original owner Earl Manvers, whose ancestor Robert de Pierrepont accompanied William I during the Conquest of 1066.

The present Thoresby Hall has occupied its site since around 1875. Designed by Anthony Salvin, with gardens by Sir Humphrey Repton and set in parklands by no less than Capability Brown, the mansion was home to the Manvers family until the death of the 8th Earl in 1955.

Today, as you stand in the extraordinary Great Hall and gaze three storeys to its open hammerbeam roof and its minstrels’ gallery you can almost taste Thoresby’s heraldry and sense of place. The Pierrepont coat-of-arms dominates the huge stone fireplace.

Yet the most famous name with which Thoresby Hall is linked is, Robin Hood, commemorated by the fabled Major Oak, England’s most famous tree, and the nearby church of St Mary, Edwinstowe, where Robin reputedly exchanged vows with Maid Marion. Whether for history or legend, a visit to Thoresby Hall never disappoints.

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