Northmoor is an historic estate in the parish of Dulverton in Somerset, England. The Victorian mansion house known as Northmoor House is set amongst steep wooded valleys on the southern edge of Exmoor .
16-534: Northmoor or North Moor may refer to: Places [ edit ] Northmoor, Devon , England Northmoor, Dulverton , an estate in Somerset, England Northmoor, Oxfordshire , England Northmoor, Missouri , USA Northmoor Country Club, a golf course in Highland Park, Illinois, USA, and site of the 1975 Illinois Open Championship Northmoor Green ,
32-484: A partner in the lead manufacturing firm of Locke and Blackett of Newcastle upon Tyne. The site was reputedly chosen by his wife. He purchased surrounding lands eventually forming an estate of 2,000 acres. John Arthur Locke (d.1888) of Northmoor married Adèle Caroline Drewe (d.1895), who in 1891 inherited from her brother Major-General Francis Edward Drewe (1830-1891) the historic estate of The Grange, Broadhembury in Devon,
48-535: A village in Somerset, England North Moor , a protected area in Scotland Fiction [ edit ] Northmoor, a plutonium processing plant in the BBC drama Edge of Darkness Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Northmoor . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
64-670: The Dulverton Foxhounds (East) (since renamed the Dulverton Farmers Foxhounds ) and the Dulverton (West) Foxhounds . The sinister supporter of the coat of arms adopted by Baron Dulverton is a "huntsman of the Dulverton Hunt". Roger Marriott-Dodington (1866-1925) of Orchard Portman House and Horsington House, Somerset, High Sheriff of Somerset in 1922. Roger Marriott-Dodington was
80-574: The eight elections from and including 1918 the Labour Party fielded candidates and won three times; a Unionist stood once without success; candidates considered Lloyd-George Coalition Liberal , National Liberal and Liberal National (reflecting complex splinter groups of the Liberal Party during the period) stood once apiece and an Independent Liberal who was the MP as a mainstream Liberal since
96-544: The estate's remaining 100 acres were bought in 1994, refurbished and operated as a 25-room holiday let. 51°02′52″N 3°33′56″W / 51.0477°N 3.5655°W / 51.0477; -3.5655 Bristol North (UK Parliament constituency) Bristol North was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1885 until it
112-439: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northmoor&oldid=1186064717 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Northmoor, Dulverton Northmoor House was built in 1856/9 by John Arthur Locke,
128-412: The local government district of Stapleton. 1918–1950 : The County Borough of Bristol wards of District, St Philip and Jacob North, and Stapleton, and part of Easton ward. Note: * denotes re-elected. General Election 1914–15 : Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914,
144-508: The owner of the historic estate of Combe near Dulverton, being the eldest son and heir of Thomas I Marriott-Dodington (d.1890) who had purchased the estate in 1872. The Marriott-Dodington family succeeded the Wills family at Northmoor House, and in 1926 were themselves succeeded by the Clayton family. Thomas II Marriott-Dodington (1895-1916), the eldest son of Roger Marriott-Dodington (d.1925),
160-582: The previous election in 1924 ran against the official party's new candidate in 1929, unsuccessfully. In two of these four instances the splinter arguably centrist Liberal candidate won. The Liberal incumbent Bernays also defected from the main body of his party in 1936 to join the National Liberal (1931) Party despite being re-elected as a candidate of the more established party in 1935. 1885–1918 : The Municipal Borough of Bristol wards of District, St James's, and St Paul's, and part of North ward, and
176-496: The seat of the Drewe family since the 16th century. His eldest son and heir was Arthur Charles Edward Locke, of Northmoor, who sold Grange which thus in 1903 passed from the ownership of the Drewe family and its descendants. John Locke built nearby the "Northmoor Chapel" (burned down in 1900) to service the spiritual needs of the estate, and employed Rev. George Jellicoe as chaplain and tutor to his eight children. In 1874 Northmoor
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208-624: Was created a baronet "of Northmoor in the County of Somerset". He was a director of W. D. & H. O. Wills , which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, and was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bristol North . He was the elder brother of Sir Frank William Wills Kt, & the younger brother of Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Baronet of Hazelwood , and the cousin of William Henry Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke . In 1929 his son Sir Gilbert Wills, 2nd Baronet
224-519: Was killed in action in World War I and his younger brother James Marriott-Dodington in 1937 was resident at "Northmoor Estate", Kyambu, Kenya. In 1926 Northmoor was purchased by Colonel Edward Clayton whose son lived there until 1994 when he sold the main house and 100 acres and moved to nearby Kennel Barn, where he established a business making all-terrain Supercat vehicles. Northmoor House and
240-599: Was purchased by Frederick Wills , a member of the Wills family of Bristol , founders of the Imperial Tobacco Company , which in 1966 was the family with the largest number of millionaires in the British Isles, with 14 members having left fortunes in excess of one million pounds since 1910, totalling £55 million. In 1897 Frederick Wills of Manor Heath in Bournemouth, and of Northmoor House
256-563: Was raised to the peerage as Baron Dulverton "of Batsford in the County of Gloucester". In 1874 a new stable block with clock tower was built at the rear of the house, but were demolished in the 1950s. Also built by the Wills family were staff accommodation and the Gardeners Cottage and buildings at Kennel Farm. The Wills family of Northmoor were associated with the Dulverton Foxhounds , since split into two hunts,
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