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| Brocket Hall featured in the '']'' episode ''Who Killed Harry Field'', where it was the British home of a Continental tycoon. | Brocket Hall featured in the '']'' episode ''Who Killed Harry Field'', where it was the British home of a Continental tycoon. | ||
| More recently Brocket Hall featured in the ] thriller ] where it was the location of a fictional ] meeting, raided by ] | |||
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| Brocket Hall is also losely affiliated with the Brocket Hall golf club, which has its club house 500 yards away with all three course located in the grounds. The ] golf academy is a subisidory, possesing its own par 3, 9 hole course and access to the main driving range. | |||
| The 3 Courses include a PGA course on which the PGA has indeed been played in 2002 | |||
| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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Brocket Hall is a country house in Hertfordshire, England, 22 miles from central London by road. It was built for Sir Matthew Lamb in around 1760 to designs by the architect James Paine. It stands on the site of two predecessors, the first of which was built in 1239. It is a tall red brick neoclassical house in a fine landscape setting with a Palladian bridge. The main staircase is probably the finest of the interiors.
Sir Matthew's son became the first Lord Melbourne and he was often visited at Brocket Hall by the Prince Regent, who had a liaison with Lady Melbourne. The next owner was William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1835-41. On his death the house passed to his sister, who was to marry Lord Palmerston who also became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and who died at Brocket while still in office. Queen Victoria was another visitor to Brocket.
In 1923 the estate was purchased by Sir Charles Nall-Cain; he was created Baron Brocket in 1933. In the late 20th century Charles Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket, also a convicted fraudster and reality television personality, converted Brocket Hall into a hotel and conference centre. It has two golf courses, a Faldo Golf Institute, and a restaurant called Auberge du Lac which was formerly associated with celebrity chef Jean Christophe Novelli.
Brocket Hall featured in the Inspector Morse episode Who Killed Harry Field, where it was the British home of a Continental tycoon.
More recently Brocket Hall featured in the MI5 thriller Spooks where it was the location of a fictional COBRA meeting, raided by Terrorists
Today
Brocket Hall is also losely affiliated with the Brocket Hall golf club, which has its club house 500 yards away with all three course located in the grounds. The Faldo golf academy is a subisidory, possesing its own par 3, 9 hole course and access to the main driving range.
The 3 Courses include a PGA course on which the PGA has indeed been played in 2002
External links
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