Historic Buildings of Devon ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Devon, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual projects where they have been set up. Image right - Compton Castle, Devon ===== ...
Chenies Manor, Buckinghamshire, England= Chenies Manor House at Chenies, Buckinghamshire, southern England, is a Tudor Grade I listed building[1] once known as Chenies Palace, although it was never a royal seat nor the seat of a bishop. It was owned by the Cheyne family, who were granted the manorial rights in 1180, and passed by marriage to the Russell family in 1526.[2]John Russell, 1st Earl ...
Aldermaston Court, Berkshire, England= Aldermaston Court is a country house and private park built in the Victorian era for Daniel Higford Davall Burr with incorporations from a Stuart house. It is south-east of the village nucleus of Aldermaston in the English county of Berkshire. The predecessor manor house became a mansion from the wealth of its land and from assistance to Charles I during t...
Historic Buildings of Cardiganshire, WalesSee Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page Image right - Aberystwyth Castle See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties >>>>>>>> HELP is always welcome - Please get involved!! If you have information about any of the Buildings mentioned below please share it h...
Historic Buildings of Cornwall ==England Image right - Trerice, Newquay>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Andrew Longton and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Cornwall, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those estab...
Portnall Park, Surrey, England= Portnall Park is in Virginia Water, Surrey, on Bagshot road, three miles (5 km) from Egham, and 21 miles from London.===History===A house was built at Potnalls, Potenall, Portenall, or Portnall Park by c. 1770. In 1804 Rev. Thomas Bisse (c1754-1828) exchanged it for some land at Tite Hill, Egham (probably land that had belonged to his wife's aunt Lydia Challoner ...
Historic Buildings of Flintshire, WalesSee Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page Image right - Rhuddlan Castle See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties
Historic Buildings of Denbighshire, WalesSee Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page Image right - Denbigh CastleSee Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties ==HELP is always welcome!! If you have information about any of the Buildings mentioned below please share it here. If you have ancestors linked ...
Boyle Farm, Surrey, England====This Large and Very Elegant House ===Over two hundred years ago, Hannah More, the writer and evangelist, visited Boyle Farm and immediately reached for her pen to tell her sister: "I was never so astonished as to see this large and very elegant house". This visit, as we shall see, she was pleased to repeat on several subsequent occasions.The house she so admired h...
Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, England=Pictured right Buscot South Front Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Townsend . It remained in the Loveden Townsend family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell , an Australian. Campbell's daughter Florence would later ...
Updown Court, Surrey, England Updown Court (grid reference SU944641) is a Californian style residence situated in the village of Windlesham in Surrey, England. The 103-room mansion has 58 acres (230,000 m2) of landscaped gardens and private woodland. It was, in 2005, the most expensive private home on the market anywhere in the world, having been listed for sale with estate agencies Savills and...
Gunnersbury Park, London, England= Gunnersbury Park is a park in Brentford, West London, England. Purchased for the nation from the Rothschild family, it was opened to the public by Neville Chamberlain, then Minister of Health, on 21 May 1926. The park is currently jointly managed by Ealing and Hounslow borough councils.[1]==History=====Private use===The name Gunnersbury derives from Gunylda, t...
Suffolk == Historic County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Suffolk Famous People >===== Historical Suffolk >===== Historic Buildings of Suffolk >===== Suffolk Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards >=====]
Rutland Main Page == Historic County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Rutland Famous People >===== Rutland Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Rutland >===== Historic Buildings of Rutland now East Midlands >===== Rutland Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >=====]
Sulhamstead Abbots, Berkshire, England=The manor of SULHAMSTEAD ABBOTS is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, and its early history is entirely unknown until it appears amongst the possessions of Reading Abbey at the close of the 12th century. At that time one of the tenants of the abbey, Robert Pincent (Punzun), was deeply in debt and together with his son and heir William quitclaimed much o...
Northamptonshire === Historic County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Northamptonshire Famous People >===== Northamptonshire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Northamptonshire >===== Historic Buildings of Northamptonshire >===== Northamptonshire Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >=====]
Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, England= Ragley Hall (grid reference SP073555) is located south of Alcester, Warwickshire, eight miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon. It is the ancestral seat of the Marquess of Hertford and is one of the stately homes of England. ===History===The house, which was designed by Dr Robert Hooke, was built for the Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway and completed in 1...
Adlington Hall, Cheshire, England= Adlington Hall is a country house in Cheshire, England. The oldest part of the existing building, the Great Hall, was constructed between 1480 and 1505; the east wing was added in 1581. The Legh family has lived in the hall and in previous buildings on the same site since the early 14th century. After the house was occupied by Parliamentary forces during the C...
Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, England= Broughton Castle is a medieval manor house located in the village of Broughton which is about two miles south-west of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England on the B4035 road (grid reference SP418382). It is the home of the Fiennes family, Barons Saye and Sele. The castle sits in parkland and is surrounded by a wide moat.===History===The castle was built as a mano...
County Durham ==Historic County of England===== Image right - New flag of County Durham, created in 2013 by Martin23230 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki Commons This is the Umbrella Project Page for County Durham, England.===Related Projects===== People Connected to County-Durham ===== County Durham Famous People ===== County Durham Genealogical Resources ===== Historical County Durham ===== His...
Lancashire == Historic County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Lancashire Famous People >===== Lancashire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Lancashire incl. Manchester Merseyside >===== Historic Buildings of Lancashire >===== Greater Manchester post 1974 >===== High Sheriff of Lancashire
Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, England= Cornbury Park is an estate near Charlbury, Oxfordshire. It comprises about 5000 acres, mostly farmland and woods, including a remnant of the Wychwood Forest, and was the original venue for the Cornbury Music Festival and later the Wilderness Festival.Cornbury used to be a royal hunting estate. The park is first mentioned in the Domesday book as a "demesne fo...
Kintbury Manor, Berkshire, England=Pictured right may be Elcot Park or KintburyThe whole of the southern portion of the parish, the original township of Kintbury, and perhaps also the townships of Elcot with Wormstall and Clapton, seem to have belonged to the king, but some time between 980 and the Norman Conquest the two northern townships and certain lands in Kintbury, near the church, were g...
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...
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...