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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.
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 Lymin
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.
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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]
Her chaplain was ejected from St Stephen's Church in Norwich in 1662. [1] In 1664 Sir Joseph Paine, sometime mayor of Norwich, led a group who tried to disrupt services in her house and she successfully protested. [1] In that year she died from dropsy and she was buried beside her husband in Blickling church. Her will was long and generous.
Oliver Le Neve (1662 – November 1711) was a Norfolk country squire and landowning sportsman who lived most of his life at Witchingham Hall in Great Witchingham, Norfolk, England, and is significant for his 1698 mortal duel with Sir Henry Hobart of Blickling Hall, the last-recorded duel fought in Norfolk.
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