Wychnor Hall

Hwicce was a provence comprising Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and a part of Warwickshire and the people were called Hwiccas or Hwicii.

"[5] Valid claimants being few and far between, the flitch was replaced by a wooden effigy of same, which continued to hang in the hall for many centuries.

[8] John Offley had been one of the pupils of Samuel Johnson at Edial Hall near Lichfield, and continued to live at Wychnor after his father's death.

[citation needed] Though he died childless, Wychnor remained for many years the home of the Levett family.

[citation needed] His friend General William Dyott, Aide-de-camp to King George III, attended Levett's simple funeral at Wychnor and noted that Levett "has left great riches to his younger children with the exception of his son Arthur, to whom he has bequeathed £4,000.

[12] The estate was broken up and sold piecemeal in 1976 and the Hall and its immediate grounds passed through various owners, being converted into the Wychnor Park Country Club after 1981.

The Levett Children . John, Theophilus and Frances Levett. Portrait by James Ward, RA , Wychnor, Staffordshire, November 1811
John Levett Receiving Pheasant from Retriever on His Estate at Wychnor , James Ward, R.A., 1812