Holidays: Magical History Tour of Norfolk ; My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, There's More to Norfolk Than Broads. Ken Bennett Discovers a Traditional Way of Life Among the Landed Gentry of the Picture Postcard County.

Sunday Mercury › September 28, 2005

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OUR genial guide, his grey hair pulled into a ponytail, introduced himself simply as Robin as he showed us around the spectacular rose gardens surrounding the stately home.

More than 1,400 different varieties of blooms nodded a welcome. Bursting, heady perfumes: splendid ingredients for a perfect English short break.

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Holidays: Magical History Tour of Norfolk ; My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, There's More to Norfolk Than Broads. Ken Bennett Discovers a Traditional Way of Life Among the Landed Gentry of the Picture Postcard County.

And it was only when Robin referred to Wolterton Hall in North Norfolk as 'my other house' that I realised I was in the illustrious presence of Lord Walpole himself.

In fact, his Lordship's family tree reads like a Who's Who of the British peerage.

It started with Ralp...

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