Osmaston Hall was built in 1696 in extensive grounds of what is now Osmaston, a part of Derby. The house was the home of the Wilmot baronets, and the Fox family before being used for a golf club and railway business. The house was demolished in 1938.
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“Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)