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General
Unfortunately we have been unable to find any information on Moor Park, its origins and history. If anyone out there has any information then please let us know.
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Moor Park Mansion
In the grounds of Moor Park Mansion stands the ruin of a temple which is frequented by the ghost of the man who had it built. Lord Anson was famous as a circumnavigator of the globe and commander of the naval fleet which routed the French off Cape Finisterre in 1747. When he retired he had built a stone temple in the grounds of his house (Moor Park Mansion) which he named ‘Stone Temple of the Winds’. Of the temple Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote:
A grateful wind I praise;
All to the winds he owed,
And so upon the winds
A temple he bestowed.
The temple survived until the early part of the twentieth century when, ironically, it blew down in a gale.
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