What is the name of the manor in 'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual'?

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What is the name of the manor in 'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual'? The manor is Hurlstone.

Hurlstone is the ancient family manor of Reginald Musgrave, who asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate strange events there. The Musgrave family has occupied the estate since before the English Civil War, and its hereditary ritual contains clues to a hidden secret.

The ritual leads Holmes to study the property’s landmarks, including a great oak and the location of a former giant elm. He eventually discovers a concealed chamber beneath a stone in an abandoned part of the house, where Brunton’s body lies across an old chest.

The mystery’s historical layer involves the English Civil War and the royalist cause. Holmes concludes that fragments of St Edward’s Crown, associated with Charles I, had been hidden there for safekeeping. Hurlstone is sometimes confused with Baskerville Hall, but that manor belongs to 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.'

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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