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Hinton Ampner House, Hampshire, England= Hinton Ampner House is a stately home with gardens within the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England.The house and garden are owned by the National Trust and are open to the publicThe garden was created by Ralph Stawell Dutton (1898–1985), the 8th and last Baron Sherborne, starting in 1930, making this a modern 20t...
Basing House, Hampshire, England= BASING is first mentioned in the will of King Edred, who left to his mother 'the lands at Amesbury, Wantnge and Basing.' Under Edward the Confessor it was held by Altei, who could 'betake himself whither he would.' It was then assessed at 11 hides. In 1086 it was assessed at 6½ and was held of the Conqueror by Hugh de Port as the chief of his fifty-five lordshi...
Stansted Park, Hampshire, England= Stansted Park began as a hunting lodge 800 years ago. Royal visitors are recorded from Henry II to the present generation. After several owners, and a calamitous fire in 1900, the mansion was rebuilt in 1901 on the exact footprint of the 1688 house, and became the family home of the Ponsonbys, Earls of Bessborough, in 1924.“A House seeming to be a Retreat” Dan...
Hatchlands Park, Surrey, England= Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres). It is located near Guildford along the A246 between West Clandon and West Horsley. Hatchlands Park has been a Grade I listed property since 1967.[1]===History===The park initially belonged to the Chertsey Abbey with the park...
Kirtlington Manor, Oxfordshire, England= Kirtlington was a royal manor in the time of Edward the Confessor, and was presumably already a hundredal manor in the 10th century. It is first mentioned in 945, when a payment was made there to the king, and in 977 Edward the Martyr held a witenagemot there at which Archbishop Dunstan was present. 'CHERIELINTONE' appears in Domesday Book as an importan...
St. Giles House, Dorset, England= St Giles House is located on the Shaftesbury Estate in Wimborne St Giles in East Dorset in England, just south of Cranborne Chase. This is the ancestral home and centre of business of the Ashley-Coopers, also known as the Earls of Shaftesbury, who are a conservative, aristocratic family that owns a large estate, including over 5,500 acres (22 km2), along with p...
Milton Manor House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England=Marjorie Mockler moved back into the house after the Second World War. It had stood empty for many years between the two wars. Between 1939 and 1945 the house had been occupied by the RAF and as a result was in a state of considerable dilapidation. Most of the original furniture had been sold in the 1911 sale including, alas, the beds that Will...
Historic Buildings of Cumberland ==England===Today Cumbria ...(embracing Westmorland and parts of Lancashire) Image right - Holker Hall >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Barbara Carr and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Cumbria/Cumberland, with links to sub-projects for specific bu...
Sarsden House, Oxfordshire, England= Sarsden House , near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, was rebuilt by William Walter in 1689 after a major fire. In 1792 James Langston inherited the house and commissioned Humphry Repton to carry out some remodelling and to landscape the grounds. In 1823-25 Repton’s architect son George Stanley made further alteration for the younger James Langston.The house is...
Oatlands Palace, Surrey, England= Oatlands Palace is a former Tudor and Stuart royal palace which took the place of the former manor of the village of Oatlands in Surrey, England. Little remains of the original building, so excavations of the palace took place in 1964 to rediscover its extent.===The palace===Much of the foundation stone for the palace came from Chertsey Abbey which fell into ru...
Avington Park & Manor, Hampshire, England= Avington Park , with its fine stretches of undulating country and its magnificent trees, described by Cobbett in 1830 as 'one of the very prettiest spots in the world,' covers nearly the whole of the north of the parish, extending over about 300 acres. Avington House, the seat of the Shelley family, stands almost in the heart of the woodland. The weste...
Great Fosters, Surrey, England=Within Egham, Great Fosters is by far the finest relic of antiquity of the parishand is considered as ranking fifth within the county of Surrey as a specimen of domestic architecture being only surpassed by Sutton, Loseley, Ham and Beddington.During the Middle Ages, the immediate vicinity of Great Fosters was known as the manor of Imworth and there is evidence tha...
Clarence House, London, England Clarence House is a royal residence in London, situated on The Mall, in the City of Westminster. It is attached to St. James's Palace and shares the palace's garden. For nearly 50 years, from 1953 to 2002, it was home to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[1] It has since been the official residence of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Clar...
Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire, England===The History of Eynsham Hall==On this site for over 300 years has stood one of Oxfordshire’s great country houses. It originated from one landowner’s efforts to keep up with the wealth and times of the early 1700s. Willoughby Lacey enclosed vast acres of his land to create his own pleasure parkland. At the heart of this was the newly built Eynsham Manor, a ty...
Ardington House, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)= ARDINGTON was held during the reign of Edward the Confessor by two freemen, Edvin, whose holding inlcuded a Mill worth 11s and 26 acres of meadow, and Sawin. In 1086 both their estates had passed to Robert Doyley , of whose honour of Wallingford they were subsequently held as one knight's fee.The second and larger holding had two mills, one of which...
Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, England= Arbury Hall (grid reference SP335893) is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, and the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate families. =====Image right Arbury Hall from Morris's Country Seats (1880) . Attribution: In the Public Dpmain in its country of origin and other countr...
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