Lavenham Wool Hall, also known as the Swan Hotel, is a timber framed building on Lady Street in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Dating from the fifteenth or...
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estate until 1604, when it was sold to Sir Thomas Skinner. Lavenham prospered from the wool trade in the 15th and 16th centuries, with the town's blue...
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Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the well-preserved villages of Long Melford, Lavenham and Kersey. The district also includes part of the built-up area of Ipswich...
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England, large, proud and noble”, “so many thin, wiry perpendiculars”. Lavenham’s St Peter & St Paul “is a match for Long Melford, “a perfect picture”....
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Spring family (redirect from Springs of Lavenham)
first came to prominence in the town of Lavenham in Suffolk, where they were important merchants in the cloth and wool trade during the fifteenth and sixteenth...
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O'Newbury William Paterson Thomas Spring of Lavenham Sir Thomas White Clothing industry Textile industry Cloth hall "Cloth merchant". collinsdictionary.com...
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Cole, Kate J.; Sudbury, Long Melford and Lavenham through Time (Amberley, 2015) Garnett, Oliver; Melford Hall. National Trust Guide (National Trust, 2005)...
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000 acres (12 km²). Located on the major thoroughfare between the wool town of Lavenham and Sudbury, the village was well-placed to benefit from the trade...
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home for railway women and the wives of railwaymen located at the Wool Hall in Lavenham between 1921 and 1961. No 169 was an 0-4-4T built by Neilson in...
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Bildeston (section Bildeston Hall)
restored to its original form as part of the Swan Hotel in nearby Lavenham. The Bildeston Hall still survives but is now split into two private residences on...
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