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English furniture has developed largely in line with styles in the rest of northern Europe, but has been interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were significant regional differences in style, for example between the North Country and the West Country. Salisbury and Norwich were prominent early centres of furniture production.[1]

  1. ^ Wheeler, George Owen (1909). Old English furniture from the 16th to the 19th centuries. L.U.Gill. pp. 748.

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