Sulgrave Manor

building, Sulgrave, England, United Kingdom

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Sulgrave Manor is an Elizabethan building located in Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England. It was completed around 1560 by Lawrence Washington, a direct ancestor of George Washington, the first president of the United States. The manor is a notable example of the distinctive country manors found in the South Northamptonshire district. The village of Sulgrave itself is known as the site of this ancestral home.12

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…designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor; and Sulgrave Manor, an Elizabethan building completed about 1560 by Lawrence Washington, a direct ancestor of George Washington, first president of the United States. The Talbot Inn in Towcester was immortalized in Charles Dickens’s novel The Pickwick Papers. The Waterways Museum (1963) on the Grand Union…
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…designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor; and Sulgrave Manor, an Elizabethan building completed about 1560 by Lawrence Washington, a direct ancestor of George Washington, first president of the United States. The Talbot Inn in Towcester was immortalized in Charles Dickens’s novel The Pickwick Papers. The Waterways Museum (1963) on the Grand Union…
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