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An historic
market town, Rothwell has a large number of
springs once considered to have healing
properties. In the Middle Ages, Rothwell had a
town wall and gates, a nunnery and the unusually
long parish church of Holy Trinity, which today
houses a huge collection of skulls and thigh
bones.
An annual fair is staged when the bailiff of the
Lord of the Manor rides round the town on
horseback reading the town’s charter accompanied
by a guard of halberdiers and a brass band.
Several buildings here were financed by Sir Thomas
Tresham, grandfather of one of conspirators of the
Gunpowder Plot. He lived at Elizabethan Rushton
House where the Catholic rebels met in the
grounds.
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The Market House, designed by Thomas Tresham -
Photo:
Andrew Pickness
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