Antiques Roadshow (series 26)

– birthplace of Katherine Parr
– artifacts of hill walker and writer Alfred Wainwright who was also honorary curator of the museum. Including office desk, pipe and socks. ^[3]

– Dyrham in old English means a valley frequented by deer.
– Dyrham Park was owned by the Wynter family for many generations.
– Harriet Wynter married a civil servant called William Blathwayt who remodelled the Elizabethan manor house, the west front by Samuel Hauduroy and the east front by William Talman, King William III's architect.
– Blathwayt also redesigned the grounds into formal gardens with cascades, parterres and forest walks. But by the time it was completed, around 1717, it was out of fashion and the gardens had disappeared within 100 years.
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– Bostonian ancestors founded Boston, Massachusetts. – named after the 6th century missionary, St. Botolph.^[3]

– the old industries were clog making and cotton milling
– the most important current employer is't quarry.^[3]

– Royal Hospital Haslar was designed by architect, Theodore Jacobsen.
– Scottish physician James Lind was one of the first in charge and known as the "Father of Nautical Medicine". He pioneered citrus juice as a treatment for scurvy ^[3]