Castle Rising
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Castle Rising is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is 4 miles north-east of King's Lynn and 37 miles north-west of Norwich.
Castle Rising
View of Castle Rising Castle from the surrounding village
Castle Rising church in July 2017
Robert Walpole
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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain, ser
Castle Rising
…given as an example of a rotten borough. Samuel Pepys was the member of parliament for the constituency of Castle Rising between 1673 and 1679, as was Robert Walpole between 1701 and 1702. Castle Rising's parish church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and was built in the 12th century on the orders of William d'Aubigny…
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, c. 1740
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford by Arthur Pond
Speaker Arthur Onslow calling upon Sir Robert Walpole to Speak in the House of Commons by William Hogarth
Walpole with his secretary, Henry Bilson-Legge, by Stephen Slaughter