found: Work cat.: Seymour, M. In my father's house, c2007:p. 2 (Thrumpton Hall) p. 6 (The House ... stands among the meadows flanking the River Trent ... Starting life as a modest Nottinghamshire manor house built in the time of Shakespeare, it was enlarged twice. An ambitious owner redesigned it in the seventeenth century, to incorporate a large carved staircase and a grand reception room on an upper floor)
found: Sunday Times web site, Feb.18, 2007 viewed Apr. 17, 2008(To the manor bound: Miranda Seymour discovered that paradise comes at a price when she inherited the family seat ... I didn't really understand what I was in for when, in 1994, I inherited Thrumpton Hall from my father)
found: ThrumptonHall.com, Apr. 17, 2008(Thrumpton Hall: the jewel of the Midlands)