Broke Hall

Broke Hall

Broke Hall is a stately home in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. overlooking the River Orwell opposite Pin Mill. The gardens were landscaped by Humphry Repton in 1794. [ [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/22499 TM2239 : 300-year-old lime avenue to Broke Hall] Geograph website accessed 1 June 2008]

It was the birth place of Admiral Philip Bowes Vere Broke [cite book |last=Burke |first=John |authorlink=John Burke (genealogist) |title= [http://books.google.com/books?id=Cq8KAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=Broke+Hall+Suffolk+Philip+Bowes A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire] |publisher=Henry Colburn |date=1832 |pages=151 |isbn=] and is currently a primary school.

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External links

* [http://www.brokehall.suffolk.sch.uk/ Website of Broke Hall School]


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