The House Of Nell Gwyn 1670-1974 By Donald Adamson & Peter Beauclerk Dewar
The House Of Nell Gwyn 1670-1974 By Donald Adamson & Peter Beauclerk Dewar
Hardcover
ISBN 718304039
Publisher: William Kimber & Co Ltd 1974
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. Tanning/browning of pages.
Nell Gwyn and Charles II used to stay at the Royal Hunting Lodge in the deer park of Bestwood. Nell Gwyn's son by Charles II was the first Duke of St Albans, of the Beauclerk family, and Charles gave him the then much bigger area of the Bestwood Hunting Lodge and surrounding area as his estate. There is a legend that Nell rode round as big an area as she could to define the area of the estate, when Charles challenged her to do this before breakfast, knowing she wasn't good at rising early! This book allows you to follow some of the history of the park up to today when its a much-loved country park for local people.
