Gorse Hall

The Hall was once part of the manor of Dockenfeld held by Lieutenant–Colonel Robert Duckenfield, a Parliamentarian soldier in the English Civil War.[13] Leech's son John, bought the remainder of the estate and with stones from the local quarries built the mansion called the New Gorse Hall in 1836.Two "identical"[20] ex-soldiers, Cornelius Howard, a relative, and Mark Wilde, were tried, with the same defense attorney, but neither resulted in a conviction.A year after the murder, In the summer of 1910, his widow, Mrs. Maggie Storrs had Gorse Hall torn down, with the stone reused elsewhere,[21] she moved away, to Morecambe Bay,[13] never to return.All that remains at this site is an old fireplace, standing alone in a concrete clearing, and floor foundations, painted a mixture of green, blue and red to show the outline of the home and where the disaster happened.

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