Lost Country Houses of Norfolk: History, Archaeology and Myth

Norfolk ranks highly in any listings of lost country houses and affords the authors a wealth of material to document. Ninety houses feature in the gazetteer. For each, where such information exists, a detailed account gives its history, ownership and reasons for demolition. In most cases, there are also illustrations. However, the gazetteer does not appear in isolation because it is supported by substantial and scholarly essays on the historical context of the Norfolk country house past and present. This is a valuable reference source from an authoritative team of landscape historians based at the University of East Anglia, and...