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    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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    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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    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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