Houghton Hall, Harpley, King's Lynn, England

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Brief description of site

Houghton Hall has an early-18th-century landscape park and woodland of 350 hectares built by Sir Robert Walpole. The gardens that surround the Palladian-style hall contain the original walled garden, a rose garden featuring over 150 varieties and herbaceous borders.

Brief history of site

Sir Robert Walpole succeeded to the estate in 1700, and began the construction of the present hall in 1721 on a site a few metres east of the old house. A plan of 1720 records the park recently extended to 120 hectares, laid out with a geometric pattern of intersecting avenues. Between 1725 and 1729 another survey records the new hall set in a park now covering 200 hectares with the existing avenues reaching into the new areas, and a new avenue. The hall and grounds fell into disrepair from the mid-18th century, and were restored in the 1920s.

Location information:

OS Landranger Map Sheet Number:	132	Grid Ref:	TF789284
Latitude:	52.82344	Longitude:	0.6536746

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