SINAI PARK 85 
Sinai and if Forest Law were given here, what more likely than to 
call this hill Sinai? 
The earliest notice I have come across as to why it was called Sinai 
is a description of Leicestershire by William Burton, 1622, on page 119 
under the heading of Grace Dieu. 
“A monastery for nunnes of the order of Saint Augustine to the 
honour of the Holy Trinity of de la Grace Dieu 20-26 King Henry 
III. This house standeth low in a valley upon a little brooke in a 
solitary place compassed round with an high and strong wall, within 
_which the nunnes had made a garden in resemblance of that upon 
Mount Olivet—Gethsamane, whither Christ with Peter, James and 
John (a little before he was betrayed) went up to pray. As formerly 
had been done by the Abbot of Burton-upon-Trent in 
the County of Stafford, who having a vast rough hillie 
ground about a mile distant from the Abbey, called it 
Sinai for the likeness it had to that rough wilderness 
Sinai, where in a mount, God appeared unto Moses— 
which ground to this day retaineth the name and is 
now called Sinai Park. 
Molyneux says :-— 
“In the earliest accounts preserved of the place it is described as Seyne, 
Seynne, or Seyney and formerly stood within an enclosed park, so named, 
containing 519 a, 3, 3p, of which | a, 1 R, 5p, formed the site of the great 
lodge as the house was then called, 3524, 2r, 16, consisted of wood, and 
the remaining 1654, 3R, 22p were under cultivation of the lord of the 
Manor, and valued at £170.” 
He further states :— 
“Tn an estate map executed 1759, the park fence is distinctly shown 
running at the base of the hills across the Lawns Farm to the old road to 
Tatenhill, and thence parallel to it onward to Postern House, along the 
whole of which line the old earth bank upon which the fence stood may still 
be traced. It was then continued to Shobnall.” 
Let us now turn to the building itself and see what we can 
make out. Well, here is the plan as at present. To-day it is 
divided up into three holdings—a dwelling house, a farmhouse, and 
a farm man’s cottage. 
