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On the rolling banks of the James River
stands a remarkable Tudor estate. And by
Tudor, we're not simply referring to an
architectural style. This manor house was
actually built in Lancashire, England in
the late 15th Century.for hundreds of years,
Agecroft Hall was the distinguished home
of England's Langley and Dauntesey families.
At the end of the 19th century, however,
Agecroft fell into disrepair, and in 1925
it was sold at auction. Hearing of this
tremendous opportunity, Richmonder Thomas
C. Williams, Jr. purchased the structure,
and had it dismantled, crated, and shipped
across the Atlantic, and then painstakingly
reassembled in a Richmond neighborhood known
as Windsor Farms.Today, Agecroft Hall stands
beautifully re-created, in a setting reminiscent
of its original site on Lancashire's Irwell
River.
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