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Temple Newsam House: A plotted history
Read up on the history of Temple Newsam House.
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* It is thought that Ango-Saxon lords first made a home on the land.
* The property was mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086 but was then known as 'Neuhusam' and owned by one Ilbert de Lacy.
* Around 1155 it was given to the Knights Templar, the religious order which guarded pilgrims to the Holy Land – they established a farmstead, excavated in 1991, about half a mile to the south of the present house, close to the river Aire.
* In 1307 the Templars were murdered in a bloody coup and in 1377 by royal decree the estate reverted to Sir Philip Darcy.
* Between 1500 and 1520 a Jacobean country house, the house today known as Temple Newsam House, was built on the site.
* Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, finally sold the estate to Leeds Corporation for a nominal sum in 1922.
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