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5 unusual facts about Somerleyton


Lowestoft College

Adult community outreach provision is delivered in the Somerleyton, Beccles, Southwold and Leiston areas.

Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton

However, in 1916 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Somerleyton, of Somerleyton in the County of Suffolk.

Somerleyton

Somerleyton was the home of Christopher Cockerell while he invented the hovercraft using the resources of 'Ripplecraft' a business operating cabin cruisers for the boat hire trade serving holidaymakers cruising the Norfolk Broads.

On 14 November 1944, they were chasing an air-launched V1 flying bomb but were mistakenly shot down by British anti-aircraft fire.

The BBC programme Antiques Roadshow was recorded at Somerleyton Hall on 10 September 2009 and broadcast in 2010.


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Lowestoft College

The Sir Christopher Cockerell building was opened in April 2007 by Lord Somerleyton and Frances Cockerell, daughter of Sir Christopher Cockerell CBE FRS, housing the Construction trades, Boat Building and Computer Aided Design.

Somerleyton Hall

In 1863 the Somerleyton estate was sold to Sir Francis Crossley of Halifax, West Yorkshire who, like Peto, was a philanthropist, a carpet manufacturer, and a Member of Parliament.


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