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style. A Victorian wing and several brick barns were built in the nineteenth century. The house remained in the
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in the sixteenth century, so any migration would be difficult to prove due to the lack of early records.
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Katherine Anne Spurrell (1852-1919), daffodil breeder and wife of Flaxman Charles John Spurrell
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marks the spot where the path used by monks to travel from
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F. C. J. Spurrell, Kentish Antiquary and Archaeologist
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