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Pure Nostalgia

Royle Hall 1729 - 1850

The first Glossop hall was usually known as the Royle Hall.
The Royle was a field system, to the West and South East of the Glossop Parish Church, and here, during the Years 1729-1735, The Lord of the Manor Ralph Standish-Howard, built the first Glossop hall.

Ralph Standish-Howard intended to live in the Royle Hall, and this would have made him the first resident Lord of the Manor, but he died in 1735,  before he could move into the Hall. His infant son Edward died a year or two later and the Standish- Howard line was finished.

The Manor of Glossop reverted back to the Ninth Duke of Norfolk, who used the Hall merely as a shooting lodge.
In 1827, James Butterworth visited Glossop and wrote: At a small distance from the village stands an ancient building called Royle hall, but now named Glossop Hall. It serves as a retreat during the shooting season, there being plenty of game here; Round it are planted large firs, and in front a very extensive hill is covered with firs  of many years growth, through which are pleasant roads.

The following lines have long remained on one of the panes of glass at this hall:
              Here hills, with naked heads, the tempests meet:
              Rocks at their sides, and torrents at their feet.
This couplet sums up the 9th. Duke's attitude to Glossop. It was a place where he and his guests could encounter nature at its wildest, for pleasure. It was a place for grouse shooting and, perhaps, even fox hunting, with a base for these activities at Royle Hall.

As a hunting lodge, and therefore unoccupied for most of the year, Royle Hall remained until 1950, gradually becoming known as Glossop  Hall. In 1850, it was demolished to build the second Glossop Hall

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