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Westhorpe is a linear village and civil parish in the Suffolk countryside, thirteen miles from Bury St. Edmunds, eight miles from Stowmarket and a mile from the villages of Wyverstone and Finningham. Administratively Westhorpe forms part of the non-metropolitan district of Mid Suffolk. Westhorpe Hall was a former seat of the Dukes of Suffolk and the place of death of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, with its close neighbour East Thorpe manor, being the seat of a previous duke, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.〔http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22461〕 ==Notable people== *Jean Kent (1921−2013), film and television actress, lived there until her death *John Clarke (3 October 1609 – 20 April 1676), medical doctor, Baptist minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Westhorpe, Suffolk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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