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Biggott House / Bigod House

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Queen's-Haven have a post about this house, where it was and what occupied the site after it was gone, and gives "Norfolk House ... lies to the south of the foundations of Bigod House, sometimes called Norfolk Inn, the medieval mansion of the Mowbray family and later of the Howard dukes of Norfolk." and "residence of the Dukes of Norfolk at Broken Wharf which Stow describes as being a large old building of stone, with arched gates."

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Biggott House / Bigod House

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