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Survey of English Place-Names

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Ludham Hall

Other OS name in the Parish of Ludham

Etymology

, built on the remains of the Bishop 's Palace . The Abbot of St Benet of Holme ( in the adjoining parish of Horning ) had a farm called The Grange in Ludham . At the Dissolution the last Abbot was made Bishop of Lincoln by Henry VIII and the Grange was re - named The Bishop 's Palace . It was destroyed by fire in 1611 but rebuilt . v. White 772 f. and Pevsner 190 f .