Sandringham

Sandringham, a Norfolk estate, 3 miles from the sea and $7\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles NNE. of Lynn. Comprising over 7000 acres, it was purchased in 1862 by the Prince of Wales for £220,000 of the Hon. C. S. Cowper. The then existing mansion was demolished, and the present hall built in 1869-71, a red-brick Elizabethan country-house, standing in a pleasant park of 200 acres; special features are the iron 'Norwich gates,' the dairy, and the splendid cottages. A fire on 1st November 1891 did damage to the amount of over £10,000. Sandringham was the scene of the six-weeks' illness of the Prince of Wales (Nov.-Dec. 1871), and of the death of his eldest son, the Duke of Clarence (14th January 1892). See Mrs Herbert Jones, Sandringham, Past and Present (2d ed. 1888).