In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Nostell like this:
NOSTAL, a hamlet in Wragby parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the West Riding and Grimsby railway, 5¼ miles S E of Wakefield. It has a station on the railway . An Augustinian priory was founded here in 1121, by Ralph Adlove, chaplain to Henry I.; superseded a hermitage, with an oratory and a small hall; acquired circumjacent land from Robert de Lacy, owner of the manor of Pontefract; and was purchased, about the middle of the 17th century, by George Winn, Esq. ...
A mansion, called No tal Priory, was built near the site of the old priory, in the beginning of the 18th century, by Sir Roland Winn; is now the seat of Charles Winn, Esq.; stands on a rising-ground, in a beautiful park of 250 acres, with an elm-avenue about a mile long, and a lake of about 40 acres; and contains a fine collection of paintings, one of which is Holbein's famous " Sir Thomas More and his Family." Wragby church stands in thepark.
Nostell through time
Nostell is now part of Wakefield district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wakefield has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Nostell itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Nostell, in Wakefield and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21574
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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