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Loxley House, Ben Lane, Wadsley

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Loxley House, Ben Lane, Wadsley
Sheffield_Wadsley
27/05/1952
1940-1959
N.V. Bell
N.V. Bell

Built 1726 and 1826.Once the home of eccentric practitioner, Henry Payne.After a quarrel with the parson of Wadsley, he swore never to enter a church again.So when he died, in 1895, two servants carried the coffin to a grave dug in the grounds of Loxley House, lowered the coffin in, and without any religious ceremony, filled the grave. House later used by the Sheffield Sea Cadets.

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