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3 June 2021

Beamsley Hospital in North Yorkshire was the creation of two outstanding daughters of the Elizabethan age: Margaret, Countess of Cumberland and her daughter and heir Lady Anne Clifford. Educated, ambitious and devoted to one another, between them they created a foundation that would offer succour to poor women for the next four centuries. Nowadays it offers succour to people needing a holiday, details here.

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