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Arbury Hall () is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, and the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate (Viscount Daventry) families.
The 19th-century author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) was born on one of the estate farms in 1819, the daughter of the estate's land agent.
In 1911, Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate erected, at Arbury Hall, a monument to the memory of George Eliot.
The film Angels & Insects (1995) was shot entirely at Arbury Hall and within the grounds.
Arbury Hall was also used as the fictional Hoxley Manor in the BBC TV series Land Girls (2009).
Custodians of Arbury Hall include: Wilkinson, R. (2006) Chronicles of the Newdegates and the Three Manors (1st Edition) Athena Press
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The hall is set in of parkland.Cooke, George Willis. George Eliot: A Critical Study of her Life, Writings and Philosophy. Whitefish: Kessinger, 2004. [1]
In the arts
George Eliot immortalised Arbury Hall as "Cheverel Manor" in Scenes of Clerical Life, where it is the setting for "Mr Gilfil's Love Story".
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