A house and garden existed at Blickling before the estate was purchased by the Boleyn family in the 1450s, but no records survive to give an indication of their appearance This was home to Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and his wife, Elizabeth, between 1499 and 1505. It is presumed that their first two children Mary and George were born at Blickling Hall, along with several other Boleyn infants who did not live long. If the couple's most famous child, Anne, was in fact born before 1505 (as one school of historical thought contends) then she too was born at Blickling; other historians maintain that Anne was born after 1505, probably in 1507, by which time Sir Thomas had moved to Hever Castle in Kent Nonetheless, a statue and portrait of Anne Boleyn reside in Blickling Hall claiming "Anna Bolena hic nata 1507" (Anne Boleyn born here 1507) It is said that every year, on the anniversary of her execution, Anne Boleyn's headless ghost arrives at Blickling Hall in a carriage drawn by a headless horseman. But she hasn't lost her head completely in the afterlife-she carries it along with her during her haunting's It was voted the most haunted house in Britain in a National Trust survey in October 2007 In 1616 Sir Henry Hobart, a lawyer, acquired the estate and remodeled the gardens to include ponds, wilderness and a parterre garden. A mount, literally a hill, was made to provide views of the new garden See Blickling in England for additional details