Hungerford Park, Berkshire, England=Pictured right:Antique Photograph of Hungerford Park - this version © Nash Ford PublishingHungerford Park was first established as a deer park, in 1247, for Simon de Montfort, the Earl of Leicester, and so-called ‘Father of English Democracy’. The area was just one of his many parcels of land around the country, but as it was located on the main road from Lon...
Waterperry Manor, Oxfordshire, England=In 1086 WATERPERRY belonged to Robert d'Oilly. The property was later held as 2 knights' fees and the overlordship descended with that of the other d'Oilly estates to the earls of Warwick in the 13th century, to Thomas Chaucer, and then to his daughter Alice, Duchess of Suffolk, in the 15th. After her death in 1475 it lapsed.The tenant in 1086 was an unide...
Historic Buildings of Cambridgeshire ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Cambridgeshire, 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 - Pampisford...
Wroxton Manor, Oxfordshire, England====Introduction===Wroxton Abbey is a Jacobean house in Oxfordshire, with a 1727 garden partly converted to the serpentine style between 1731 and 1751. It is 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Banbury, off the A422 road in Wroxton. It is now the English campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.Wroxton Abbey is a modernised, 17th-century Jacobean manor hous...
Frogmore House, Berkshire, England= Frogmore House , located within the Frogmore Estate which is to be found within Home Park, Windsor, Berkshire, is a 17th century grade I listed country house under the ownership of the Crown Esate.==History==Frogmore house was initially built between 1680 and 1684 for its first tenants, Anne Aldworth and Thomas May . The architect employed by Charles II at Wi...
Christleton Old Hall, Cheshire, England=Although the Old Hall itself was built in 1603, there is some evidence of buildings of an earlier period on the site. Above the Tudor looking fireplace in the main hall, the original grate for which is still preserved, there are on the right oval of plaster, the emblems of the English Rose, the Unicorn and the Thistle of Scotland- hailing no doubt the Stu...
Woodperry Manor, Oxfordshire, England=In Domesday Book Roger d'Ivry held WOODPERRY of Odo of Bayeux, the holding being assessed at 4 hides, the overlordship passed with that of the d'Ivry lands to the St. Valery family and thence to Richard, Earl of Cornwall. In 1166–7 Gilbert 'de Almaria' paid a fine of 20s. for Pery (i.e. Woodperry),with which the Aumery or Damory family were thereafter conne...
Wilcote Manor,Oxfordshire, England=In 1086 WILCOTE, assessed at 1 hide, formed part of the extensive Oxfordshire holdings of Odo, bishop of Bayeux. On Odo's fall Wilcote, among other manors, was granted c. 1100 to Manasser Arsic, forming part of his barony of Cogges. The overlordship of Wilcote followed the barony's descent until the latter's division in the 13th century, after which it passed ...
Kenwood House, London, England= Kenwood House (also known as the Iveagh Bequest) is a former stately home, in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath. It is managed by English Heritage, and normally open to the public. The house was closed for major renovations from 2012 until late 2013.[1]The house is best known for the artwork it houses. ===History===The original house ...
Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire, England= Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswold village of Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is a Grade I listed building. It is situated close to the River Thames, and it is frequently flooded. The nearest town is Faringdon in the Vale of the White Horse.===History 1570 to 1870===The ...
Farnham Castle, Surrey, England===History==Farnham Castle overlooks the historic town of Farnham on the western border of Surrey.Playing an important part in the life of the town, the Keep and the Bishop’s Palace are popular tourist attractions. Historical associations and nearly continuous occupancy make the Castle one of the most important historical buildings in the south of England.For 800 ...
York House, Twickenham, London, England= York House is an historic stately home in Twickenham, England, and currently serves as the Town Hall of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is situated in Richmond Road, near the centre of Twickenham, close to St Mary's Church. ===History===Unlike several other UK buildings also called York House, the Twickenham building did not take its name ...
Dorchester House, London, England=Dorchester House was a mansion in Park Lane, London, built in 1853 by Robert Stayner Holford. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the present Dorchester Hotel. ===Overview===Lewis Vulliamy who was a notable architect of that time was instructed to build a house in which a central staircase was a major feature.[1] The main purpose of the building was to ho...
Halton House, Buckinghamshire, England= Halton House is a country house in the Chiltern Hills above the village of Halton in Buckinghamshire, England. It was built for Alfred de Rothschild between 1880 and 1883. It is currently used as the main officers' mess for RAF Halton.===History===There has been a manor house at Halton since the Norman Conquest, when it belonged to the Archbishop of Cante...
Windlesham Moor, Surrey, England=Shown right - painting of the house and gardens circa 1934, attributed to Winston Churchill, was discovered and auctioned in September 2008. Windlesham Moor is a country house and, for a time in the 20th century a royal residence, at Windlesham in the English county of Surrey.===History===Mr Philip Hill bought the Victorian home and grounds in a state of disrepa...
Moggerhanger House, Bedfordshire, England= Moggerhanger House is a Grade I-listed country house in Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire, England, designed by the eminent architect John Soane. The house is owned by a Christian charity, Harvest Vision, and the Moggerhanger House Preservation Trust, and has recently undergone a £7m refurbishment project with help from organisations such as the Heritage Lott...
Eaton Bray aka Eaton Manor, Bedfordshire, England= Pictured right: Tomb of Lady Jane Brereton Volume III of The Victoria County History for Bedfordshire published in 1912, has a history of the manor as set out below. It seems reasonable to assume that this manor was simply the continuation of the holding of twelve hides, one virgate of Bishop Odo of Bayeux, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086...
Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire, England= Heythrop Park is an early 18th-century country house 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Heythrop in Oxfordshire. It was designed by the architect Thomas Archer in the Baroque style for Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury . A fire in 1831 destroyed the original interior. From 1922 until 1999 Heythrop housed first a Jesuit tertiary education college, and later a ...
Eythrope Buckinghamshire, England= Eythrope (previously Ethorp) is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the south east of the main village of Waddesdon. It was bought in the 1870s by a branch of the Rothschild family, and belongs to them to this day.===History===The hamlet name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means "island farm", ref...
Fawley Court, Buckinghamshire, England= Fawley Court is a country house, with large mixed-use grounds standing on the west bank of the River Thames at Fawley in the English county of Buckinghamshire. Its former deer park extended east into the Henley Park area of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire that abuts it to the south. It is listed at Grade I for its architecture. [1]==History=====Early histor...
Savoy Palace, London, England= The Savoy Palace , considered the grandest nobleman's townhouse of medieval London, was the residence of John of Gaunt until it was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. It lay between the Strand and the River Thames – the present Savoy Theatre and Savoy Hotel were named in its memory. In the locality of the palace the administration of law was by a special j...
Brereton Hall, Cheshire, England=The first mention of the name Brereton occurs in the Domesday Book. The name Brereton appears as one of thesix dependencies or manors of the Barony of Kinderton at Middlewich, which was obtained by Gilbert de Venables . It would appear that the taking of land from the Saxon landowners and giving it to Norman followers was completed before the 1086 Domesday surve...
Dollis Hill House, London, England= Dollis Hill House was an early 19th-century farmhouse located in the north London suburb of Dollis Hill, on the northern boundary of Gladstone Park. Noteworthy guests such as William Ewart Gladstone and Mark Twain were once entertained there. By the 21st century, the house was derelict, having been all but destroyed by fire in the 1990s; the building was fina...
Astley Castle, Warwickshire,England= Astley Castle is a ruinous moated fortified 16th century manor house in North Warwickshire. It has been listed as a Grade II* listed building since 1952[1] and as a Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1994. It was derelict and neglected since it was severely damaged by fire in 1978 whilst in use as a hotel and was officially a Building at Risk. The building reo...
Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, England= Claydon House is a country house in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, near the village of Middle Claydon.[1] It was built between 1757 and 1771 and is now owned by the National Trust. ===History===Claydon has been the ancestral home of the Verney family since 1620.[2] The church of All Saints, Middle Claydon lies less than 50 yards from the h...