Sir William Wentworth (1562-1614) was an English landowner.
He was born in 1562, the son of Thomas Wentworth and Margaret Gascoigne or Gascoyne, heiress of Gawthorpe. A story was told of Wentworth's visit to Bolling Hall and a vision concerning St Ann's well at Buxton.[1]
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