Kirklington Hall Research Station

Sir Albert Bennett, 1st Baronet, Liberal MP from 1922-23 for Mansfield, lived there from 1920.

[1] The previous owner died aged 73 on Friday 14 December 1945,[2][3] leaving £138,365 in her will.

[4] In June 1945 it was put up for auction, with 631 acres, 15 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, abd 11 servants rooms.

[6] Nottinghamshire County Council for two years was looking to buy the property, but it was a big investment, for a residential further education college; it chose another site in July 1947.

[8] The local church, with Hockerton, held garden parties at the site in the summer.

Sunbury Research Centre had been built around the same time as the Kirklington site, in the early 1950s.