View from the garden of Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England.

Blickling Hall main entrance way.

Blickling Hall is a stately home in the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England, and in the care of the National Trust since 1940. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 382 pixelsFull resolution (1023 × 488 pixel, file size: 85 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Blickling Hall near Aylsham, Norfolk, England. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 382 pixelsFull resolution (1023 × 488 pixel, file size: 85 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Blickling Hall near Aylsham, Norfolk, England. ... A stately home is, strictly speaking, one of about 500 large properties built in England between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century, as well as converted abbeys and other church property (after the Dissolution of the Monasteries). ... Blickling is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England, about 1½ miles north-west of Aylsham. ... Aylsham is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in North Norfolk, England. ... For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a British preservation organization. ...

History

Blicking Hall was once in the possession of the Boleyn family, and home to Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and his wife, Elizabeth, between 1499 and 1505. It is presumed that their first two children Mary and George were born at Blickling Hall, along with several other Boleyn infants who did not live long. If the couple's most famous child, Anne was born before 1505 (as one school of historical thought contends) then she too was born at Blickling. However, the weight of evidence would suggest that Anne was born after 1505, probably in 1507 and by that time Sir Thomas had moved to Hever Castle in Kent. Nonetheless a statue and portrait of Anne Boleyn reside in Blickling Hall claiming "Anna Bolena hic nata 1507" (Anne Boleyn born here 1507). Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and 1st Earl of Ormonde (about 1477 - 12 March 1538/9), was a Tudor diplomat and politician and the father of Anne Boleyn, the second Queen of King Henry VIII. was born and buried at the family home, Hever Castle. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, née Lady Elizabeth Howard (ab. ... Mary Boleyn (c. ... George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (c. ... Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke[1] (ca. ... Hever Castle Hever Castle, in Kent, England (in the village of Hever), was the seat of the Boleyn family. ... For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ... Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke[1] (ca. ...

The current Blickling Hall was built on the ruins of the old Boleyn property in the reign of James I, by the Hobarts. In 1616, Sir Henry Hobart Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and 1st Baronet bought Blickling from Robert Clere. The architect of Hatfield House, Robert Lyminge, is credited with the design of the current structure. The Lord Chief Justice married Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Robert Bell of Beaupre Hall, Outwell/Upwell, Norfolk, Speaker of the House of Commons 1572–1576. A grand display of heraldic material is present throughout the estate. (1) James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scots as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary... Sir Henry Hobart 1625 (Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) Knighted 2 Nov. ... Prior to 1880, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas was one of the highest judicial officials in England, behind only the Lord High Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings (or Queens) Bench. ... The great hall Hatfield House is a country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. ... Robert Lyminge (flourished 1607-1628)[1] his surname is also spelt Lemyinge & Liminge, was an English carpenter and architect, his earliest record of employment is dated 1607 at the almshouses at Theobalds Hertfordshire. ... Sir Robert Bell (d. ... Beaupré Hall Beaupré Hall was a large 16th century house mainly of brick, which was built by the Beaupres in Outwell, Norfolk, England and enlarged by their successors the Bells. ... In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land. ...

Blicking House in the 20th century

During World War II the house was requisitioned and served as the Officers Mess of nearby RAF Oulton. It was at this time that the house and its estate passed to The National Trust, under the terms of the Country Houses Scheme. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Royal Air Force Oulton is located to the west of the market town of Aylsham in Norfolk and was built over 1939 and 1940 as a bomber airfield with T2 type hangars and grass runways, the facility operating as a satellite airfield of nearby RAF Horsham St. ...

At the end of the war, the house was de-requisitioned. The National Trust again let it to tenants until 1960, when the Trust began the work to restore the house to a style to reflect its history. The house and grounds were opened to the public in 1962 and remain open under the name "Blickling Hall, Garden & Park".

Blickling Hall Library

The library at Blickling Hall contained and still contains one of the most historically significant collections of manuscripts and books in England. The most important manuscript associated with the house is the Blickling homilies, which is one of the earliest extant examples of English vernacular homiletic writings. This volume is now housed in the Firestone Library at Princeton University (MS. 71, s.x/xi) and privately owned by the Scheide family who reside in New Jersey. The Blickling homilies have been edited and translated twice, once in the 19th century by Richard Morris, and very recently by Richard J. Kelly, who discusses the significance of the Blickling Hall collection in the introduction to his edition and translation. The Blickling Homilies are a collection of eighteen Old English prose homilies and sermons by anonymous writer(s). ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... “NJ” redirects here. ...

Trivia

• Blickling Hall is used as "Bono's house" in an episode of I'm Alan Partridge.

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References

• Woodcock, T., Robinson, J., Heraldry in Historic Houses of Great Britain, p. 46-51,pb. 2000, ISBN 0-8109-6691-3

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External links

• Blickling Hall, Garden & Park information at the National Trust
• The Headless ghosts of Blickling Hall - an animated myth