Abney Hall
Abney Hall is a Victorian house surrounded by a park in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, (grid reference SJ85958923) built in 1847.It was originally called 'The Grove' after the print works and was going to have been the home of a mayor of Stockport, Alfred Orell, but he died in the year of its completion.However, the work by Travis and Magnall was hardly complete, when James Watts was inspired to engage the architect and designer A. W. N. Pugin and his colleagues, who had created the Gothic Court at the 1851 Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, to make further substantial alterations.[4] During filming for BBC drama series Our Zoo in April 2014, flagstones surrounding Abney Hall were accidentally damaged.Vanessa Wagstaff writes, Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.
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