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Blickling Hall
Blickling Hall was the childhood home of the Boleyns and it is where Anne and her brother and sister were raised before the family were granted Hever Castle. Ever Halloween at Blickling the ghost of Anne Boleyn is said to be seen.
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Kenninghall, the Howard estate
Kenninghall is an ancient manor house located in Norfolk. The house has been for many years the home of the Dukes of Norfolk given to the Howard family by the sovereign.
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York Castle
York Place is best known as being the home of the Archbishop's of York. It had a very close proximity to the king being located around Westminster and close to Whitehall. The last resident of York Place was Cardinal Wolsey who inherited the mansion in 1514.
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Wolfhall
Wolfhall is an old manor house located in the town of Burbage in Wiltshire. For long periods of the Tudor dynasty it was the seat of the Seymour family of which one was Henry viii third wife Jane Seymour.
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Suffolk House, home of the Brandon family
Suffolk Place is a mansion located in the borough of Southwark in London. The house was built in the fifteenth century by the Duke of Suffolk Charles Brandon. Later the mansion was exchanged and given to Henry Viii in exchange for Norfolk Place in 1536.
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Westhorpe Hall
Westhorpe Hall was the residence of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and of Princess Mary (daughter of King Henry VII and sister of King Henry VIII), a love match and second marriage for Mary (she was briefly Queen consort of France as wife of Louis XII) and third marriage for Charles. He was previously married to the wealthy widow Margaret Neville, and then Anne Browne, mother to Charles's two eldest daughters, Anne Brandon and Mary Brandon. There, they raised their children, Frances (mother of Lady Jane Grey), Eleanor, and Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln. Princess Mary Tudor died at Westhorpe Hall where her body was embalmed and held in state for three weeks.
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Parham Old Hall
Parham Old Hall also known as Moat Hall is a moated site and historic medieval mansion close to the village of Parham, Suffolk, England closely associated with the Barons Willoughby of Parham, it is a Grade II listed building on the National Heritage List for England and has the remains of a formal garden, the site is a Scheduled Monument with remains of a 15th and 16th century building on its central island.
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Cockfield Hall
Cockfield Hall in Yoxford in Suffolk, England is a Grade I listed private house standing in 40 acres of historic parkland, dating from the 16th century. It was built by the Spring family, wealthy cloth merchants and later baronets of Pakenham.
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Jericho House
Many visitors to the church are intrigued by the house behind the wall known as Jericho Priory.
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Buckingham House, Stafford home
Buckingham house was built in the early 18th century for the Dukes of Buckingham and was one of the grandest residences in London.
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Carrow Abbey
Carrow Abbey is a former Benedictine Priory located in the southeast of England in the City of Norwich. The Abbey was granted a royal charter in 1146 by King Stephen. The Abbey was also very popular with the Dukes of Norfolk.
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Rochford, George Boleyn residence
Rochford Hall is a manor house located in Rochford Essex. During the reign of Henry Vii the residence belonged to Thomas Boleyn who was Viscount Rochford at the time. The hall was also the marital home of his daughter Mary Boleyn and later the residence became the home of George Boleyn.
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Hatfield House
Hatfield House was the childhood residence of Elizabeth I that her father granted her and she would spend most of her childhood days here with her governess Kat Ashley.In November 1558 whilst sitting under a tree Elizabeth was told she had become queen.
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Ingatestone Hall
Ingatestone Hall is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Essex, England. It is located outside the village of Ingatestone, approximately 5 miles south west of Chelmsford and 25 miles north east of London. The house was built by Sir William Petre, and his descendants live in the house to this day.
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Gosfield Hall
Gosfield Hall is a country house in Gosfield, near Braintree in Essex, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The house was built in 1545 by Sir John Wentworth, a member of Cardinal Wolsey’s household, and hosted Royal visits by Queen Elizabeth I and her grand retinue throughout the middle of the 16th century.
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St Edmund and St Mary's Church, Ingatestone
St Edmund and St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church in the village of Ingatestone in Essex. It dates to the 11th century and received major modifications in the 17th century.
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Bradgate House
Bradgate House is a 16th-century ruin in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England. Edward Grey's son Sir John Grey of Groby married Elizabeth Woodville, who, after John's death married King Edward IV.
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Durham House
Durham House, or Durham Inn, was the historic London town house of the Bishop of Durham in the Strand. Its gardens descended to the River Thames.
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Hunsdon House
Hunsdon House is a historic house in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Harlow. Originally constructed in the 15th century, it was most notably the estate of Henry VIII of England. It has been rebuilt several times since then, and is no longer as grand as it was in the Tudor era.
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Wrest House
Wrest Park is a country estate located in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens surrounding the mansion.
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Penshurst Place
Penshurst Place is a historic building near Tonbridge, Kent, 32 miles south east of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney.
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Chequers
Chequers, or Chequers Court, is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house in origin, it is located near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills.
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Buildwas Abbey
Buildwas Abbey was a Cistercian monastery located on the banks of the River Severn, at Buildwas, Shropshire, England - today about two miles west of Ironbridge.
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St Botolph's Church
St Botolph's Aldgate is a Church of England parish church in the City of London and also, as it lies outside the line of the city's former eastern walls, a part of the East End of London.
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Collegiate Church of St Mary
The Collegiate Church of St Mary is a Church of England parish church in the town of Warwick, England. It is in the centre of the town just east of the market place. It is a member of the Greater Churches Group. The church has the status of collegiate church as it had a college of secular canons.
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All Hallows-by the Tower
All Hallows-by-the-Tower, at one time dedicated jointly to All Hallows and the Virgin Mary and sometimes known as All Hallows Barking, is an ancient Anglican church on Byward Street in the City of London, overlooking the Tower of London.
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Chelsea old Church
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people.
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Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England. The cathedral is regarded as one of the leading examples of Early English architecture. Its main body was completed in 38 years, from 1220 to 1258.
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Guildhall
Guildhall is a municipal building in the Moorgate area of the City of London, England. It is situated off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap.
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Great Fulford
Great Fulford is an historic estate in the parish of Dunsford, Devon. The grade I listed manor house, known as Great Fulford House, is about 9 miles west of Exeter. Its site was said in 1810 to be "probably the most ancient in the county".
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