The Spencer family lived at the mansion successively until 1895, when the house was let.
It belonged to the wealthy Spencer family during the 16th and 17th century.
The Spencer family built 40 houses to lease to sawmill workers, and by 1910 there were 200 people living in America.
The Spencer family was not the only one drawn into the campaign.
The estate has been the ancestral home of the Spencer family since the 16th century.
Wheatfield was still in this branch of the Spencer family in the 1960s.
A leasehold extending until 2082 was purchased in 1986 from the Spencer family who owns the house.
Because of his father, Ramage had known the Spencer family since boyhood.
Many interiors were shot at Althorp, seat of the famous Spencer family.
From them descends the current line of the Spencer family which was divided into two branches.