Bolwick Hall is located at

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, 1 mile south of

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History

The hall is recorded in the

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of 1086 and given to King John I by

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and then passed to Henry de Bolevic. By 1872 the hall had only changed ownership on 11 occasions. The present exterior was added in c.1800. Architecture such as

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and Tudor can be seen.

Gardens

Landscaped gardens and parkland surrounding the late

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hall (not open to the public), are attributed to

Humphry Repton Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of ...

. The gardens include a collection of mature trees, a working vegetable garden, woodland and lakeside walks. The ornamental lake was formed by the damming of The Mermaid a minor tributary of the

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to provide water for the Bolwick watermill.Bolwick hall watermill
Retrieved August 28, 2008 The garden is open to the public once a year under the

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Bolwick watermill

The watermill was an estate mill, originally belonging to the hall. The final structure was completed in 1812 and renovated in 1889. The mill was below the level of the dammed Bolwick lake and because the volume of water produced by the Mermaid was not great, the watermill had one of the largest diameter wheels in the county at . The building survived to 1965.

Notable residents

* Gerard Anstruther Wathen CIE (1878-1958) as entered - " Wathen of Bolwick Hall formally of Beckenham Lodge " in

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. Wathen was a

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, principal of

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, India (1914 - 1924) and the headmaster of

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, (1924-1955). He married Melicent, daughter of Charles Louis Buxton of Bolwick Hall.

References

External links

Bolwick Hall
{{Watermills of Norfolk Gardens in Norfolk Country houses in Norfolk Gardens by Humphry Repton