Record Details
| NHER Number: | 44219 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Letheringsett Park |
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Summary
A post medieval landscape park associated with Letheringsett Hall (NHER 6521). It includes a large lake, an orangery (NHER 17205), a root/summer house (NHER 42794), a water supply system (including NHER 6519 and 42793) and a fountain (NHER 42796).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 06236 39036 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG03NE |
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| Parish: | LETHERINGSETT WITH GLANDFORD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
April 2006.
A landscape park associated with Letheringsett Hall (NHER 6521) is visible on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (S1).
Norfolk HLC data states that it appears on Bryant's map of 1826 (S2).
The area of the park mapped is based on (S1), the HLC plots and the location of features known to have stood within it - these include an orangery (NHER 17205), a root/summer house (NHER 42794), hydraulic rams (NHER 6519), a water tank (NHER 42793) and a fountain (NHER 42796).
D. Robertson (NLA), 4 April 2006.
(S3) states that the lake is artificial and that it is fed by two streams. It was made in 1851 to provide a head for the water turbine at Hall Farm (NHER 13448).
D. Robertson (NLA), 6 April 2006.
Monument Types
- LANDSCAPE PARK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1986. Spotlight on elegant estate. 29 March. |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. Ordnance Survey 6 inch map. |
| <S2> | Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Durst, D.. 1993. Letheringsett: Industrial Archaeology in a Rural Setting. Part I - Introduction.. NIAS Journal. Vol 5, No 3, pp 200-205. p 203. |
Related records
| 6519 | Parent of: 19th and 20th century hydraulic rams (Building) |
| 42796 | Parent of: Fountain in the grounds of Letheringsett Hall (Building) |
| 17280 | Parent of: Modern hydraulic ram (Monument) |
| 42793 | Parent of: Post medieval water tank (Monument) |
| 42794 | Parent of: Summer house in Letheringsett Park (Building) |
| 17205 | Parent of: The Orangery, Letheringsett Park (Building) |
| 6521 | Part of: Letheringsett Hall (Building) |
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