Blickling Hall
Blickling Hall is a manor house in the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in English County Norfolk .
Blickling Hall was owned by the Boleyn family between 1499 and 1505 and was inhabited by Sir Thomas Boleyn , later the Earl of Wiltshire , and his wife Elizabeth . It is believed that their two oldest children, Mary and George, were born here. If Anne Boleyn , whose date of birth has not been conclusively determined, was born before 1505, she would also have been born here, otherwise her place of birth is Hever Castle in Kent , which Thomas Boleyn and his family had moved into around 1505.
On the ruins of the old Boleyn estate, Sir Henry Hobart, who acquired Blickling from Robert Clere in 1616, built the later Blickling Hall in the Elizabethan style .
Blickling Hall was requisitioned during the Second World War and served as an officers mess for the nearby RAF base in Oulton. Since 1940, except for use during World War II, the property has been managed by the National Trust .
literature
- Rupert O. Matthews: Great Britain. Beauty and tradition. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1995, ISBN 3-860-70120-7 , pp. 24-27.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 48 ′ 41.1 " N , 1 ° 13 ′ 54.6" E