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recorded his last weeks: "To watch Father's glorious mind breaking up and sinking - like a great ship - is a pain beyond all my imagining. I did not know life could be as cruel as this". Asquith is buried in the churchyard at Sutton
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red bricks. The Mill House is also in brick and dates from the 18th century with earlier elements, and later additions undertaken by Cave. Walton House, again in red brick, although this time in
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at the Wharf commemorating
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and many Friday-to-Mondays were spent at the Wharf.
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936:Categories
823:. London:
430:Tim Burton
270:Designated
265:Wharf Barn
256:– Grade II
232:Designated
218:– Grade II
194:Designated
189:Mill House
180:– Grade II
156:Designated
142:– Grade II
120:Vernacular
70:51°38′46″N
22:Mill House
914:Berkshire
900:243906913
395:Berkshire
387:Lady Boot
379:Maud Tree
151:The Wharf
106:Architect
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817:(1962).
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