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Thetford Heritage Trail - historic highlights of Thetford, Norfolk

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Kingston Lacy - Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England

Winterborne Whitechurch, St Mary's Church - Winterborne Whitechurch, Dorset, England

Wilton Italianate Church - Wilton, Wiltshire, England

Athelhampton House - Athelhampton, Dorset, England

Breamore House - Breamore, Hampshire, England

Milton Abbas - Dorset, England

Clouds Hill - Wareham, Dorset, England

Wolfeton House - Dorchester, Dorset, England

Puddletown - Dorset, England

Tolpuddle - Dorset, England

Wimborne Minster - Dorset, England

Wimborne Minster Church - Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England

Priest's House Museum - Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England

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Ipswich, Suffolk
in the Domesday Book

"In the borough there were in the time of King Edward 558 burgesses rendering customary dues to the king. They had 40 acres of land. But now thee are 110 burgesses who ender customary dues and 100 poor burgesses who cannot render anything to the king's geld apart from one penny a head. And amongst them all they likewise have 40 acres of land. And 328 dwellings have been laid waste in the borough which in the time of King Edward used to pay scot to the king's geld. In the same borough Alwulf the priest has one church, Holy Trinity, to which belong 26 acres in alms."


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Mary Ardens House
Mary Ardens House - Wilmscote, Warwickshire, England
Three miles outside Stratford to the north lies the small village of Wilmcote. Here stands a lovely half-timbered Tudor farmhouse built of oak from the nearby Forest of Arden and stone from Wilmcote. This was the childhood home of Mary Arden, the eighth daught of a well-to-do yeoman farmer named Robert Arden. The house is indicative of how a better-off family would have lived in the late Tudor period. ... more

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