Boscobel House facts for kids
Boscobel House is a house on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, near Wolverhamptonand Albrighton, England. It was built around 1632 when landowner John Gifford of White Ladies Priory turned a farmhouse into a hunting lodge. Charles II famously hid in a tree at the Boscobel House to escape discovery by Parliamentary soldiers after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree became known as the Royal Oak
42 days after the Battle of Worcester, Charles escaped to France on a coal ship called Surprise. Nine years later, Charles ll was invited back to England to become king. In 1660, he came back to England to be the king and Charles named that day "Oak apple day".
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A descendant of the Royal Oak at Boscobel House
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Alleged priest hole on the first floor of Boscobel House, at present in a bedroom cupboard. Its authenticity is open to challenge.
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Priest hole on the second floor. At present it is at the top of a staircase, but the stairs were a few feet to the left in the 17th century.
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Internal oak timbers, much perforated by woodworm, on the first floor of the 16th-century farm building.
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The hunting lodge, framed by its own chimney stack and stairway.
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The hunting lodge from the west. The stucco that covered the original patchwork of brick and daub has false windows painted on, a common practice at the time to avoid paying window tax.
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Display of butter-making equipment on the ground floor of the 16th-century farm.
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Water pump outside the 19th-century farm building.
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The nut garden, an avenue of hazelnut trees.
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The Royal Oak as it appeared in 2011. It was further distanced from visitors after serious cracks were discovered in Autumn 2010.
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Granddaughter tree of the Royal Oak, planted in 1951 to commemorate the tercentenary of the escape of Charles II.
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