Mildenhall Warren Lodge Breckland Suffolk
Mildenhall Warren Lodge, Suffolk, in Breckland, the area of poor soils in south-west Norfolk and north-east Suffolk, dates from the late 15th century. It is one of two surviving in Breckland out of several dozen, each of them the home of a warrener who looked after rabbits being raised in embanked areas, sometimes over 100 hectares in extent, known as warrens. Each lodge, often remote, was also a store and, effectively. a fortress because rabbits, brought to England by the Normans, were highly prized for their fur and meat, not at that point having gone feral to live in the wider landscape.
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