• Holkham is a small village and civil parish in north Norfolk, England, which includes a stately home and estate, Holkham Hall, and a beach, Holkham Gap...
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    Holkham Hall (/ˈhoʊkəm/ or /ˈhɒlkəm/) is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian...
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    of Holkham in the County of Norfolk, and Earl of Leicester, also in the Peerage of Great Britain. Lord Leicester began the construction of Holkham Hall...
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  • Holkham may refer to: Holkham, the civil parish in Norfolk, England Holkham Bay, part of the Inside Passage in Alaska Holkham Hall, the Palladian home...
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    The Holkham Bible (London, British Library, Additional MS 47682) is an illustrated collection of biblical and apocryphal stories in Norman French. The...
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    Holkham National Nature Reserve is England's largest national nature reserve (NNR). It is on the Norfolk coast between Burnham Overy Staithe and Blakeney...
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    Leicester (6 May 1754 – 30 June 1842), known as Coke of Norfolk or Coke of Holkham, was a British politician and agricultural reformer. Born to Wenman Coke...
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    figures and played a key role in preserving and modernising the Holkham estate, Holkham Hall, over 40 years. Lord Leicester was the son of Anthony Coke...
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    Holkham Bay (also known as Sumdum Bay) is a bay in the U.S. state of Alaska. It connects Tracy Arm and Endicott Arm on its east to Stephens Passage on...
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    Holkham Camp, or Holkham Fort, is an Iron Age fort in Norfolk, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west of the village of Holkham. It is a scheduled monument...
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    Holkham Brick Pit is a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. It is a Geological...
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    of Ancient Virtue, Stowe Holkham Hall, North Front Holkham Hall, Marble Hall Obelisk, Holkham Hall Triumphal Arch, Holkham Hall Badminton House Worcester...
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  • Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner (category People from Holkham)
    to 1952. Lady Glenconner was primarily raised at her family's estate, Holkham Hall in Norfolk. During the Second World War, she and her sister Carey...
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    Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester (category People from Holkham)
    served as Equerry to the Duke of Kent. He now runs the family estate at Holkham Hall. In 2021, he won a by-election to the House of Lords as a member of...
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    the Codex Arundel (BL Arundel MS 263) online. Works have also been at Holkham Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in the private hands of John...
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    his second wife Lady Anne Amelia Keppel. He succeeded to the earldom and Holkham Hall on his father's death in 1842. Lord Leicester served as Lord-Lieutenant...
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  • of Harewood) Hatfield House in Hertfordshire (Marquesses of Salisbury) Holkham Hall in Norfolk (Earls of Leicester) Leeds Castle in Kent (various families...
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    south-east. Nearby villages include Blakeney, Burnham Market, Burnham Thorpe, Holkham and Walsingham. The name is Guella in the Domesday Book of 1086 (half gallicised...
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    artist, architect and landscaper William Kent, and their joint creation, Holkham Hall in Norfolk, has been described as "the most splendid Palladian house...
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    it returned to the ark." Medieval illuminated manuscripts, such as the Holkham Bible, showed the dove returning to Noah with a branch. Wycliffe's Bible...
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    Depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 from the Holkham Bible...
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    A scene from the Holkham Bible showing knights and foot soldiers at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314....
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    building. The two 18th-century English country houses of Houghton Hall and Holkham Hall illustrate these different approaches in turn. In the Place des Vosges...
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  • Oxfordshire (which played the role of the de Lesseps mansion), the beach at Holkham in Norfolk, the chapel at Eton College, Berkshire, and the Great Hall of...
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    Wells with Holkham Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats Peter Fisher* 357 48.24 +4.8 Conservative Michael Dalby 236 31.89 +3.4 Labour Co-op Phil...
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    the landscape, while some of the great houses such as Kedleston Hall and Holkham Hall were built as "power houses" to dominate the landscape, and were most...
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    the finest British beaches, such as those at Great Yarmouth, Cromer and Holkham. Norfolk contains the Broads and other areas of outstanding natural beauty...
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    to the museum in 1933. It had been at Holkham Hall in Norfolk, and in older sources may be called the Holkham Venus. Other versions with a lute-player...
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    as δεκάμερον (τό) or, classically, δεχήμερον. Boccaccio, "Proem" "MS. Holkham misc. 49: Boccaccio, Decameron, Ferrara, c. 1467; illuminated by Taddeo...
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    suggesting it was Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, who had an estate at Holkham Hall, in Norfolk. However, research performed by a younger relation of...
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