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A ‘real gem’ of an Elizabethan hall where Virigina Woolf came to recuperate, and ended up writing a story

Blo Norton Hall is a delightful Norfolk home with great stories to tell. Penny Churchill takes a look.

Between the Fens, the vast Thetford Forest to the west and the Broads to the north, you will find south Norfolk’s Breckland district, the name of which means ‘abandoned field’. It is a sandy wilderness of heath and dry grassland set amid the rich farmlands of East Anglia, where, for centuries, the land was ploughed by itinerant farmers who moved on when its…

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