Branston Hall is a country house in the Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

 village of Branston

Branston, Lincolnshire

Branston is a large village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, approximately south-east of Lincoln.In the 2001 Census the population was recorded as 4019.-Geography:...

. The hall was built between 1884 and 1886 and is set in 3.56 square kilometres (88 acres) of wooded parkland and lakes.

Originally commissioned as the family seat of the Melville family, the house became an RAF

Royal Air Force

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 hospital during World War II

World War II

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, lay derelict in the 1970s and 1980s, underwent restoration and conversion into a luxury retirement home in the late 1980s, and has now been restored and converted into a popular hotel.

External links

• Spa at Branston Hall Hotel
• Branston Hall Hotel
• Gourmet Food Source Branston Hall's head chefs non-commercial resource site