The Honour of Grafton is a contiguous set of manors in the south of Northamptonshire, England up to the county's eastern border with Buckinghamshire.
Modern villages, as parishes, within the Honour comprise: Abthorpe, Alderton, Ashton, Blakesley, Blisworth, Cold Higham, Furtho, Grafton Regis, Greens Norton, Hartwell, Passenham, Paulerspury, Potterspury, Roade, Stoke Bruerne, Shutlanger, Silverstone, Towcester, Whittlebury, and Yardley Gobion, and also encompass Whittlewood Forest.
This dukedom had been created for one of Charles II's favoured sons, mothered by Lady Castlemaine, Barbara Palmer made Duchess of Cleveland.
Wakefield Lodge, near Potterspury, was rebuilt by the 2nd Duke as his residence in Northamptonshire, but the main ducal seat is Euston Hall, Suffolk and its similar land holding.
Inside the 3-bay centre hides a hall in the style of Inigo Jones's Queen's House, Greenwich with a balustraded gallery on console brackets at first floor level on all four sides.
The circular, stone, cantilever staircase winds up in the style of the Queen's House with a wrought-iron balustrade with S curves and a mahogany handrail.
[2] Manorial rights ceased gradually – and finally by the Law of Property Act 1925 which was enacted under a progressive phase of UK politics.
The main seat, Wakefield Lodge, is several times shown in paintings such as: Demolished in 1948 to leave only the wing designed by William Kent who died two hundred years before,[1] a modern free source image of the house and one the grounds: