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Hall

Somerleyton Hall hunkers handsomely in 12 acres of ornamental gardens amid the broad, flat landscape of East Anglia. A Jacobean manor built in 1610, it was elaborately remodelled as an Italianate mansion by the Victorian entrepreneur Sir Samuel Morton Peto, who for years was the biggest employer of labour in

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