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Manby House Country Retreat is set in 3 acres of mature woodland gardens containing many specimen trees. One of the most notable being a willow grown from a cutting taken from Napoleon Bonaparte's willow at his grave in St. Helena and brought to England in 1913 aboard HMS Forte.
There are also many magnificent and rare trees including Lebanon Cedar Trees, Acicia Trees, varieties of Pines and many more that have been collected from around the world and allowed to flourish in this private woodland.
RAF Manby played an important role during its operational life, having been an air warfare training centre, boasting one of the finest Officer's Mess in the RAF, which now has a grade one listing by English Heritage.
Manby House retains many of its original features from its notable past but has been sympathetically renovated to provide comfortable ensuite accommodation.
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