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Pick your own fruit June - August. Not suitable for the disabled. Assistance dogs allowed into the House and Grounds
One of the finest pink brick, and gabled Tudor Manor Houses in England, built about 1500 and has been occupied by the Palmer family ever since. A house of great charm with rooms full of the atmosphere of history: early fifteenth and sixteenth century lacquer furniture, eighteenth and nineteenth century tables, 400 years of family portraits, stained glass and needlework.
Here Charles II once came to seek the charms of Barbara Palmer, Countess of Castlemaine the most intelligent, beautiful and influential ladies.
It was here that the first ever pineapple was grown in Britain and presented to Charles II in 1661. Enjoy a traditional afternoon tea in this historic Manor House.
St James' Church next door is a lovely cool, cheerful and very English church.
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- Landmark