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Harry Potter's Birthplace in Lavenham Listed for Sale for Almost £1m

The 14th Century cottage used as the fictional birthplace of Harry Potter is back on the market for almost £1m.

De Vere House in Lavenham, Suffolk, featured in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One, as the house where the young wizard's parents were killed by Lord Voldemort.

When a dead woman woke up on her way to the graveyard in 1724, the law was rewritten

Capital punishment was abolished in the second half of the 20th century in the United Kingdom. Death penalty for high treason was taken off the books in 1998, but no one had been executed for that crime since 1946, when William Joyce, nicknamed “Lord Haw Haw,” was hanged for the capital crime of high treason.