Beningbrough Hall
Baroque brick mansion with a walled kitchen garden, pear tunnel and eighteenth-century portraits.
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This guide to Beningbrough Hall near York leaves the portraits behind and heads for the kitchen garden. It follows Giles and Margaret Earle, the couple who won the house in seventeen sixty-one and then spent their way into trouble, and the brick walls they raised after coming home. Along the way it touches on an old brew house and a son undone by drink. Best heard standing inside the walled garden, by its north wall.
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