Cothay Manor
The romance of Cothay lies in part to its great age and the atmosphere that surrounds it. In medieval times, the rent for the land surrounding the manor was a rose and a pair of silver spurs payable at Christmas and on the feast of St. John the Baptist, which falls on mid-summer’s day.
Legend has it that to celebrate the end of the Wars of the Roses, a red and a white rose were planted on the terrace by Richard Bluett, the then lord of the manor, who enlarged Cothay in the 15th Century. The legend and gesture continue to this day, for you can still see the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York flowering today.
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