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A beautiful place with timber-framed, black-and-white cottages and buildings of grey-green stone, with the Church of St Mary dates from the 13th century apart from its Victorian tower.
In the church are memorials to the Lees family, one of which who owned the village in the 17th century. The Lees were ancestors of the American statesman Richard Henry Lee, one of the signatories in 1776 of the Declaration of Independence, and of General Robert E Lee, commander of the Southern forces in the American Civil War.
Robert Burnell, Lord Chancellor of England built his castle of red-sandstone in the reign of Edward I in 1284.
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- Landmark