Bestwood Lodge

Bestwood Lodge is a Grade II* listed 19th-century country house in the civil parish of St Albans, Nottinghamshire, England.

The first written evidence of a royal hunting lodge at Bestwood, a part of the larger Sherwood Forest, is from 1286 in the reign of Edward I.

The Duke entertained the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra), Lord Tennyson, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone at Bestwood Lodge.

The Beauclerk family finally sold the estate in 1939, with most of the southern farmland purchased by the Nottingham City Corporation for housing.

[8] The lodge itself was requisitioned by the military in World War II for use as a training facility with shooting ranges, trenches and a control base for Northern Command.