Day 295 - October 22nd

Today we visited the Blickling Estate. We have visited before but I always look forward to return visit.

Blickling Hall is an impressive Jacobean Mansion designed in 1616 and now owned by the National Trust. The estate was once owned by the Boleyn family and was the birth place of Anne Boleyn. 

The inside of the house is spectacular with many rooms open to the public containing period furniture, tapestries and paintings.

Below stairs the servants quarters are also open.

The grounds and park surrounding the house are huge. We hunted for fungi and weren't disappointed.

Beside the lake we spotted this wicker sculpture of a corgi. It is one of seven wicker corgi's created and placed around the district to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

In the walled garden all the produce had already been harvested and many of the beds lay empty.

We did notice apples on some of the trees and in the greenhouse an impressive collection of pumpkins and squashes.

In the flower beds the dahlias were still flowering in every colour imaginable.