Ecclesfield Hall.

This five-bay hall was built as an extension to the Priory in 1736 to provide more commodious accommodation for a farm tenant. It replaced an earlier extension to the priory built in the Tudor period. The hall was the scene of strange accidental deaths in 1859 when the occupier, 80-year old Samuel Greaves, and his 76 year-old wife, Mary, died from the effects of eating monkshood which Mary had picked, it is assumed, thinking that the poisonous roots belonged to an edible vegetable.

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Archiving Reference Number K/464/a/B CHGA
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Contributor/s Original from Alan Boulton
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Date Donated to the EDA 1st October 2016

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