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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 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.
In the Domesday Book, Blickling is listed as a settlement of 44 households in the hundred of South Erpingham. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of King William I and William, Bishop of Thetford. [3] Adjacent to the hall is the Buckinghamshire Arms public house. The present building and barn were built in 1700, although an ale house ...
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She painted gardens for Lord and Lady Hillingdon at Overstrand Hall, and was invited every year between 1921 and 1929 to Blickling Hall to paint the gardens there. [5]
Hardwick Hall's long gallery, 1811, David Cox the Elder Later, long galleries were built, sometimes in a revivalist spirit, as at Harlaxton Manor , an extravagant early-Victorian house in Jacobean style, and sometimes to house a large art collection, as at Buckingham Palace , which has a long interior space lit from above, called the Picture ...
As the lead image to illustrate an encyclopaedic article about Blickling Hall, I prefer the composition in image A. Disclosure: that is an image I took with my phone in 2014.-- DeFacto . 20:12, 5 September 2024 (UTC) That makes 3 for A.
The Bure Valley Railway is a 15 in (381 mm) minimum gauge visitors' attraction in Norfolk, England.It was created on the original disused full-gauge bed of a defunct passenger service to incorporate a new, adjacent pedestrian footpath.