Time Travel A look back at Rudding Park Milestones
The Mackaness family purchased Rudding Park in 1972 since when a consistent programme of development and investment has transformed 2,000 acres of outstanding Yorkshire countryside and a magnificent, Grade I listed country house into luxury hotel, spa, golf and conference resort.
Rudding Park as it is today
We reveal how Rudding Park has evolved overtime
1788 Lord Loughborough takes ownership of the original Rudding House and later commissioned renowned landscape designer, Repton
1805 - Estate purchased by hon. William Gordon. He began construction of the present HOuse but nineteen years later, when Rudding Park passed into the hand of Sir Joseph Radcliffee, the building was still unfinished. Yorkshire architect, R.D. Chantrell was brought in to complete the work
1879 - Gothic Revival Chapel, adjacent to Rudding House, designed by London architect A.E. Purdie was completed. The fine stone carvings were the work of Italian stonemasons.
1876 - Rudding Park Chapel Bill of Quantities shows it was built for a mere £4,976 – 16s-3d
1972 - Mackaness family purchase Rudding Park. Blueprint for the leisure developments prepared in 1973
1973 - The proposal included details on how Rudding Park would serve the local community
1987 - Rudding Park House opens as a conference and banqueting centre. The Yorkshire Post describe it as the 'Yorkshire venue for all occasions',
1995 - 18 Hole Hawtree Golf Golf opens at Rudding Park. Designed by Martin Hawtree, the course opened a new routing in 2019 - a Yorkshire version of Amen Corner
1987 - 50 bedroom hotel adjoining Rudding House, makes Rudding Park Yorkshire’s premier hotel and golf resort
12 December 1997 - Pupils from Follifoot Primary school bury a time capsule at Rudding House. The capsule will be unearthed in 25 years when the next generation of schoolchildren will add to its contents.
2006 - Clocktower Restaurant was added to link the buildings
2008 - Rudding Park Golf Academy and 6 Hole Repton Short Course open, featuring a version of the famous island hole at Sawgrass, Florida
2010 - The addition of the Follifoot Wing brings the number of hotel bedrooms to 90 along with treatment rooms, a gym and 14 seat private cinema
2015 - Rudding Park Kitchen Garden opens. The garden now grows over 500 different herbs, salads, edible flowers and fruits for Clocktower and Horto
2017 - Rudding Park Spa opens featuring the UK’s first Roof Top Spa and Garden
2017 - Horto Restaurant opens where guests can experience contemporary fine dining
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