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Hemblington Hall is a large farmhouse in Norfolk county, England, built around 1700 [1] with a Georgian facade. This grade II listed building was the home of the Heath family during the 18th and 19th centuries. [2] [3] The nearby All Saints Church contains memorials to many members of the Heath family.
Albert Edward also developed the estate, creating one of the finest shoots in England. Following his death in 1910, the estate passed to Edward's son and heir, George V, who described the house as "dear old Sandringham, the place I love better than anywhere else in the world". [2] It was the setting for the first royal Christmas broadcast in ...
In 1850 he married Sarah Miller Page who was the daughter of Christopher Thomas Page of Stiffkey, Norfolk. The couple had thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters. He lived with his family at Wiveton Hall and farmed the land for the next forty years. In 1889 he placed an advertisement in the “Norfolk News” for the sale of the estate.
At that time the estate was the third largest in Norfolk, containing over 19,000 acres (77 km 2). Bylaugh Hall was completed in 1852, but Edward had died in the same year in Florence before its completion. It was inherited by his uncle Charles Beevor (1776–1860) who assumed the name of Lombe in accordance with Sir John Lombe's will.
Norfolk County houses cost less in December compared with the previous month, newly released data shows. The median sale price fell from $661,000 to $634,000, a decrease of 4.1%, according to an ...
Melton Constable Hall circa 1880. 52°50'47.20"N 1° 0'49.59"E. Melton Constable Hall is a large (Grade I listed) country house in the parish of Melton Constable, Norfolk, England designed in the Christopher Wren style and built between 1664 and 1670 for the Astley family who owned the estate from 1235 until 1948.
They had seven children, two sons and five daughters. When he died in 1903 his son Robert Wrench Wood (1876–1949) moved into the Hall and continued to manage their large farm until its sale in 1911. In 1910 he married Violet Irene Chamberlin who was the daughter of Sir George Moore Chamberlin, a prominent Norfolk businessman. They had two sons.
The present hall and estate was once occupied by an early manor house, owned by Sir Henry Spelman, [5] and the village of Wolterton which was abandoned [6] leaving only the remains of the parish church tower which stands a short distance north of the present hall. Evidence shown on a map produced in 1733 shows that the deserted settlement of ...