Hanbury Manor

Hanbury Manor is a converted late-Victorian country house operated by Marriott Hotels as part of the Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & Country Club with an adjoining golf course in Thundridge, north of Ware, Hertfordshire, 10 miles (16 km) north of Greater London.

A manor is a leading family estate typically with farmland and other manorial rights across a wider area.

His mother The Blessèd Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury was the last legitimate Plantagenet based on strict patrilineality.

He served two years as the last catholic Archbishop of Canterbury and died 12 hours after Queen Mary I of England.

Architects Sir Ernest George and Harold Peto designed a replacement grand house,[5] built by Simpsons & Ayrton of Paddington in 1890–91 for £20,000.

[7][8] The estate was redeveloped and extended over a three-year period by Landbase Ltd as a 5-star hotel and country club, opening in 1990 with RockResorts as the first operator.

The former parts of the main building whilst a convent school having been a gym, chapel and classrooms, formed the base for a conference and banqueting centre set around the courtyard.

The Hanbury Manor golf course was first designed by Harry Vardon in the early 1900s as a 9-hole course, and the newer (1991) 18-hole course by Jack Nicklaus II.