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Ditchingham Hall is a country house and estate, near the village of Ditchingham in south Norfolk, England. It is the country house of Earl Ferrers since it was inherited by the 13th Countess Ferrers. The current owner is Robert William Saswalo Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers. It is a private house not open to the public.
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Location
The Hall is about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Ditchingham off the B1332 road between Bungay, Suffolk and Norwich.
History
The house is set in parkland landscaped by Capability Brown and is about 2,000 acres (810 ha) in size. The house dates from 1710 for Revd John James Bedingfeld and replaced an earlier one. The hall was enlarged in 1910 and reduced in size in the 1980s.
The writer Diana Athill was brought up in Ditchingham Hall. The Great Storm of 1987 did great damage to the estate trees according to the German author W. G. Sebald who was visiting at the time.