High Slakes, near Milburn
Introduction
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Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 15 Aug 2006
This was a habitable house in 1973 as the Nobel prize winner in physiology or medicine that year (Nikolaas Tinbergen, the ethologist) used it as his holiday home. It is now a holiday cottage.