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A Home with a History: reading the walls at Burlingham Old Hall

In rural Norfolk, rising majestically from behind an ancient yew hedge, is Burlingham Old Hall – a remarkable palimpsest with a long lineage of literary connections. Until recently, the late poet Peter Scupham lived here with his wife, Margaret Steward, who takes our writer on a tour of its warren of well-thumbed rooms

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words: George Younge
photography: William Pitt

A Home with a History: reading the walls at Burlingham Old Hall

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