The generation game
PEOPLE who buy country estates in Norfolk tend to take a long-term view and most of the county’s great landed estates have been owned by the same families for generations. Although it’s not uncommon to see large country houses being offered for sale in the county with a small acreage of amenity land or parkland, only rarely does a substantial farming estate with an historic, Grade II*-listed manor house come to the open market in this part of the world.
Today sees the launch in COUNTRY LIFE of the 600-acre Wood Hall estate near the village of Hilgay, five miles south-west of Downham Market, 31 miles from Cambridge and 45 miles from Norwich. Owned by the same family since
