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    Holkham Hall (/ˈhoʊkəm/ or /ˈhɒlkəm/) is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian...
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  • Holkham is a small village and civil parish in north Norfolk, England, which includes a stately home and estate, Holkham Hall, and a beach, Holkham Gap...
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    of Ancient Virtue, Stowe Holkham Hall, North Front Holkham Hall, Marble Hall Obelisk, Holkham Hall Triumphal Arch, Holkham Hall Badminton House Worcester...
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    artist, architect and landscaper William Kent, and their joint creation, Holkham Hall in Norfolk, has been described as "the most splendid Palladian house...
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    The Holkham Bible (London, British Library, Additional MS 47682) is an illustrated collection of biblical and apocryphal stories in Norman French. The...
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    Norfolk to work on farming, hunting, and the maintenance and expansion of Holkham Hall, his ancestral home. Coke was again returned to Parliament in 1790, sitting...
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    The art collection of Holkham Hall in Norfolk, England, remains very largely that which the original owner intended the house to display; the house was...
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    Holkham in the County of Norfolk, and Earl of Leicester, also in the Peerage of Great Britain. Lord Leicester began the construction of Holkham Hall in...
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    Holkham National Nature Reserve is England's largest national nature reserve (NNR). It is on the Norfolk coast between Burnham Overy Staithe and Blakeney...
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    Englishman who rose from modest origins to supervise the construction of Holkham Hall, and become one of the best-known architects of his generation. Much...
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    supervised the execution of William Kent's and Lord Burlington's design of Holkham Hall in Norfolk. The domes at Euston were replaced by the low pyramid roofs...
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  • Testament of Solomon, edited from manuscripts at Mount Athos, Bologna, Holkham Hall, Jerusalem, London, Milan, Paris and Vienna, with Introduction (Untersuchungen...
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    Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester (category People from Holkham)
    served as Equerry to the Duke of Kent. He now runs the family estate at Holkham Hall. In 2021, he won a by-election to the House of Lords as a member of the...
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    pavilion was a self-contained unit for a designated purpose as at both Holkham Hall and Kedleston, where one pavilion housed the kitchens and staff, and...
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  • Harewood) Hatfield House in Hertfordshire (Marquesses of Salisbury) Holkham Hall in Norfolk (Earls of Leicester) Leeds Castle in Kent (various families...
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    listed building. The house was built in the Palladian style of nearby Holkham Hall, though much smaller: a large principal central block linked to two flanking...
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    Mezrab, who was 20 years her junior. Jane Elizabeth Digby was born in Holkham Hall, Norfolk, on 3 April 1807, daughter of an Admiral, Sir Henry Digby and...
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    Other charity work included participating in the Alzheimer's Society's Holkham Hall Memory Walk in September 2013. Colman's great-grandmother suffered from...
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    Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house owned by the National Trust, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately...
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  • to Norfolk for filming. The beach at Holkham was used for filming; Knightley had shot scenes at nearby Holkham Hall for her 2008 film The Duchess. A location...
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    the landscape, while some of the great houses such as Kedleston Hall and Holkham Hall were built as "power houses" to dominate the landscape, and were...
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    from Clement Coke, the estate passed to the senior line, the Cokes of Holkham Hall in Norfolk, and was inherited by Robert Coke, son of Sir Edward Coke...
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    building. The two 18th-century English country houses of Houghton Hall and Holkham Hall illustrate these different approaches in turn. In the Place des...
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  • Holkham may refer to: Holkham, the civil parish in Norfolk, England Holkham Bay, part of the Inside Passage in Alaska Holkham Hall, the Palladian home...
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  • Twickenham Film Studios and on location at Chatsworth, Bath, Holkham Hall, Clandon Park, Kedleston Hall, Somerset House, King's College London and the Old Royal...
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    was designed at Buckingham Palace as recently as the mid-19th century. Holkham Hall, Osterley Park and Chiswick House are among the innumerable 18th-century...
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    of Aphrodite, Probably from the Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon, at Holkham Hall", The Journal of Hellenic Studies 33 (1913:276–295 [283]); "general agreement...
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    particularly noted for commissioning the design and construction of Holkham Hall in north Norfolk. Between 1722 and 1728, he was one of the two Members...
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    enclosures and the swamp house which has many crocodiles and alligators. Holkham Hall is an 18th-century stately home and visitor attraction, constructed in...
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    Brancaster Staithe. This is connected with Burnham Overy Holkham Hall#Architects and patron Holkham Hall Dates information "Home". broads-authority.gov.uk....
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