Haughley Park

[1] It is a large red brick country house built in about 1620 for the Sulyard family who were very prominent landowners in this area.

The site of a royal hunting ground attached to Haughley castle, the land was granted by Henry VIII to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk who later surrendered it to the Crown.

The land was then granted to Sir John Sulyard by Queen Mary because of the loyalty he had shown when she was deposed.

John was a staunch catholic and the only existing painting of him in the Palmer Family Collection shows him to be a formidable character.

The house was subsequently built in the reign of King James I and generations of Sulyards lived there until the end of the 18th century.

One of Edward Sulyard's daughters Frances, married George Jerningham eldest son and heir of Sir William Jerningham of Costessey Hall in Norfolk a few months after her father's death and the couple decided to live at Haughley Park for the next decade.

The couple lived at Haughley Hall until 1809 when George inherited his father's title and estate.

They moved to the Jerningham family seat of Costessey Hall and Frances lived there for the rest of her life.

When he bought Haughley Hall William Crawford was sixty and he came to the house accompanied by his wife and two unmarried daughters.