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Towneley ParkA large Country House and estate outside Burnley in Lancashire. Now a museum and park. Sold to Burnley Corporation in 1902. - Last Towneley heir, Lt.Henry Towneley killed in 1870's in British Army service.
- Strange case of the missing heir, said to have emigrated to USA in 19th Century...
- Sir Charles Towneley owned "Kettledrum" the horse that won the 1861 derby.
- Towneleys fought at Agincourt, and for the King during the English Civil War, originally a Norman family.
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