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| | England's Thousand Best Houses - Simon Jenkins - Penguin UK |
 | | Not only does he include a full, rich selection of its great and famous houses and estates, but also presents an eclectic mix from the many thousands of towers, castles, halls, abbeys, cottages, private homes – even schools and prisons – of the country. |
 | | The house was used by Bess's last husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, to incarcerate Mary Queen of Scots, and was then rebuilt during the 1690s. |
 | | When the house was a girls' school during the Second World War, these rooms were dormitories, surely the most splendid in the land. |
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