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Gravetye Manor is a manor house located near East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.The former home of landscape gardener William Robinson, it is now a hotel and restaurant holding, in 2020, one star in the Michelin Guide, [2] and is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England, [3] its gardens are also Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
With his writing career a financial success, in 1884 Robinson was able to purchase the Elizabethan Gravetye Manor near East Grinstead in Sussex, along with about 200 acres (0.81 km 2) of rich pasture and woodland. His diary of planting and care was published as Gravetye Manor, or Twenty Years of the Work round an old Manor House (1911). [17]
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Gravetye Manor house, built in 1598, still stands in extensive grounds 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village. [7] In 1556, West Hoathly resident Ann Tree was burnt at the stake in East Grinstead for refusing to renounce Protestantism; she was one of 17 "Sussex Martyrs" who suffered this fate. A brass memorial in the church commemorates her.
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