Holbeche House (also, in some texts, Holbeach or Holbeache) is a mansion located approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Kingswinford, now in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley but historically in Staffordshire. Some of the main protagonists in the Gunpowder Plot were either killed or captured at Holbeche House in 1605.
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