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Blickling Hall is a Jacobean stately home situated in 5,000 acres of parkland in a loop of the River Bure, near the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England. The mansion was built on the ruins of a Tudor building for Sir Henry Hobart from 1616 and designed by Robert Lyminge. The library at Blickling Hall contains one of the ...
The Blickling Park mausoleum is a Grade II* listed building in the grounds of Blickling Hall, Norfolk, England. It was commissioned in 1793 by Lady Caroline Suffield, the daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire , as a tomb for her father and his two wives.
Blickling is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of the English county of Norfolk. Blickling is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of Aylsham and 13 miles (21 km) north of Norwich. Most of the village is located within the Blickling Estate, which has been owned by the National Trust since 1940.
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet SL (1 January 1560 – 29 December 1625), of Blickling Hall, was an English politician who succeeded Sir Edward Coke to become Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
The interiors at Hatfield are well preserved with much original carpentry work, especially in the Great Hall. Both houses have grand staircases with cantilevered wooden steps, arched balustrades with carved figures on the newel posts. The staircase at Blickling was moved in the 18th century and additional flights added to make it symmetrical.
William Boleyn was born at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, [5] the younger of the two sons of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn (1406–1463), [6] a wealthy member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers who purchased the Blickling estate in 1452 [7] and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1457–58. [8]
Blickling Hall, National Trust. Sir James Hobart , also known as James Hoberd and James Hubbard , (1436 [ 1 ] – 24 February 1517 [ a ] ) of Norfolk became a member of Lincoln's Inn during Edward IV of England 's reign and was appointed attorney-general and knighted during the reign of Henry VII .
Le Neve of Witchingham Hall, Great Witchingham, fought left-handed and was wounded in the arm by Hobart who had a reputation as a good swordsman. However, Le Neve struck back and injured his opponent so badly that he died the next day at Blickling Hall. As there were no seconds or witnesses, the duel was illegal.