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Essex ==Historic County of England.===== Image right - Flag of Essex; by Greentubing - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons ===Related Projects>===== Essex Famous People >===== Essex Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Essex >===== Historic Buildings of Essex >===== Essex Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards
Kensington Palace, London, England= Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century, and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Ken...
Historic Buildings of Oxfordshire ==England Image right - Blenheim Palace >===== Image By Blenheim_Palace_2006_cropped.jpg: *Blenheim_Palace_2006.jpg: gailf548 from New York State, USAderivative work: Nev1 (talk)derivative work: Durova (talk) - Blenheim_Palace_2006_cropped.jpg, CC BY 2.0, Wiki =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provi...
Norfolk - Main Page == Histopric County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Norfolk Famous People >===== Norfolk Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Norfolk >===== Historic Buildings of Norfolk >===== Norfolk Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >=====] People Connected to Norfolk >=====Visitations of Norfolk 1563 - 1589 & 1613/57
Denbies, Surrey, England=Although once a farm house, Denbies became the symbol of the success of one Jonathan Tyers, owner of the famous Vauxhall Gardens in London. The pleasure gardens, originally called New Spring Gardens, opened in 1661 but had subsequently declined until Tyers took on the tenancy of the Gardens in 1728 and, with William Hogarth (the painter), revived their fortunes after a ...
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England====History of the Hall.===Little Moreton Hall belonged to the Moreton family, a family that grew immensely rich by taking full advantage of social and religious upheavals of their times. With the decrease in population during the Black Death (1348) much land was placed on the market and was purchased cheaply by the Moretons. They were staunch loyalists and...
Historic Buildings of The Channel Islands See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page ===== Image right - Mont Orgueil Castle or Gorey Castle , Saint Martin, Jersey - by Man vyi - Self-photographed, Public Domain, Wiki Commons
Lanyhydrock House, Cornwall, England= Lanhydrock (Cornish: Lannhedrek,[1] meaning "church enclosure of St Hydrock") is a civil parish centred on a country estate and mansion in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish lies south of the town of Bodmin[2] and is bounded to the north by Bodmin parish, to the south by Lanlivery parish and to the west by Lanivet parish. The population was 171 in the 200...
Winfield House, London, England= Winfield House is a mansion set in 12 acres (4.9 ha) of grounds in Regent's Park, the largest private garden in central London after that of Buckingham Palace. Since 1955, it has been the official residence of the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. It is Grade II listed as an "exceptional ambassador's residence and as a notable Neo-Georgian town hou...
Historic Buildings of Lancashire ==England===Including ManchesterThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Lancashire, 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 rig...
Chiswick House, London, England= Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick. Arguably the finest remaining example of Neo-Palladian architecture in London, the house was designed by Lord Burlington, and completed in 1729. The house and gardens, which occupy 26.33 hectares (65.1 acres),[1] mainly created by architect and landscape designer William Kent, is one of the earlie...
Hough Hole House, Cheshire, England= Hough Hole House is a historic house to the northwest of the village of Rainow, Cheshire, England. It dates from about 1660, and was altered and extended in 1796. An engineering works was added in the 1850s, and incorporated into the house during the 20th century. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed...
Hulme Hall, Cheshire, England= Hulme Hall with its moat and medieval bridge is Allostock’s oldest and most archeologically significant monument. The site is an English Heritage Scheduled Ancient Monument and the Hall and bridge are Grade 2* listed.Danes settled at Hulme Hall in the 10th and 11th century and there are records than an Anglo-Norse squire (Hame) who lived here, perished in the Batt...
Welford Park, Berkshire,England= Welford Park was originally the site of a monastic grange that was granted to Abingdon Abbey way back in Saxon times. The house was known as 'Farm Court' and was run on behalf of the monks by a bailiff.After the Dissolution, King Henry VIII used the place for a time as a hunting lodge. Later, in 1546, it was granted on a long-term lease to Sir Thomas Parry Senio...
Historic Buildings of Lincolnshire Image right - Grimsthorpe Castle >===== Image by Wehha - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, WIKI ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Lincolnshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project ...
Guildford Castle, Surrey, England= Guildford Castle is in Guildford, Surrey, England. It is thought to have been built shortly after the 1066 invasion of England by William the Conqueror.=History===From the eleventh to the thirteenth century=====Construction and development===After the Battle of Hastings in 1066 William led his army to Canterbury and then sacked towns along the Pilgrims' Way, i...
Greys Court, Oxfordshire, England= Greys Court is a Tudor country house and associated gardens, located at grid reference SU725834, at the southern end of the Chiltern Hills at Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.The name derives from an old connection to the Grey family, descendants of the No...
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, England= Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, 6.6 miles (10.6 km) west of Aylesbury. The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898) as a weekend residence for grand entertaining.Th...
Fetcham Park, Surrey, England= Fetcham Park House is a Queen Anne mansion designed by the English architect William Talman with internal murals by the renowned artist Louis Laguerre and grounds originally landscaped by George London. It is located in the parish of Fetcham in Surrey.Construction of the present mansion began in 1699 although a reference in the Domesday survey suggests that there ...
Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, England= Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house located in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the home of Stowe School, an independent school and is owned by the Stowe House Restoration Trust who have to date (March 2013) spent more than £25m on the restoration of the house. The gardens (known as Stowe Landscape Gardens), a significant example of the Eng...
Stowe Landscape Gardens & Monuments, Buckinghamshire, England===The history of the gardens==In the 1690s, Stowe had a modest early-baroque parterre garden, owing more to Italy than to France, but it has not survived, and, within a relatively short time, Stowe became widely renowned for its magnificent gardens created by Lord Cobham. The Landscape Garden was created in three main phases, showing...
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England=>>===== Image Right © Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Geograph Woburn Abbey (occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford. Although it is still a family home to the current duke, it is open on specified days to visitors, along wi...
Kew Palace, London, England= Kew Palace is a British royal palace in Kew Gardens on the banks of the Thames up river from London. There have been at least three palaces at Kew, and two have been known as Kew Palace; the first building may not have been known as Kew as no records survive other than the words of another courtier. One palace survives and is open to visitors. Grade I listed,[1] it ...
Hillingdon House, London, England= Hillingdon House is a Grade II listed mansion in Hillingdon, Greater London. The original house was built in 1717 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Schomberg. It was destroyed by fire and the present house was built in its place in 1844.The British Government purchased Hillingdon House in 1915 and it became a military hospital. In 1917, what would become the ...
Fulham Palace, London, England= Fulham Palace in Fulham, London (formerly in Middlesex), England, at one time the main residence of the Bishop of London, is of medieval origin. It was the country home of the Bishops of London from at least 11th century until 1975, when it was vacated. It is still owned by the Church of England, although managed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham an...
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 ...
Heligan Estate, Cornwall, England= Heligan (meaning "willows" in Cornish) is first recorded in the 12th century.[1] The estate was bought by Sampson Tremayne in 1659.[2] Heligan House was built by William Tremayne in 1603 in Jacobean style,[2] but only the basement of that house remains. The house was substantially rebuilt in 1692 by Sir John Tremayne (1647–1694) in William and Mary style [2] 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...
Broadlands, Hampshire, England=The original manor and area known as Broadlands has belonged to Romsey Abbey since before the time of the 11th-century English Norman Conquest.After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Broadlands was sold to Sir Francis Fleming in 1547. His daughter married Edward St. Barbe, and the manor remained the property of the St. Barbe family for the next 117 years. Sir Jo...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
The Wakes, Selborne, Hampshire, England=The origin of The Wakes is a C16 hall building, its name coming from the Wakes family who probably occupied it in the C16 and C17 (Scott 1950). Gilbert White's grandfather acquired it at the beginning of the C18, probably as a dower house for his wife. From 1751, while a curate in and around Selborne and the house in the ownership of his father, Gilbert W...
Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire, England= Mottisfont Abbey is a historical priory and country estate in Hampshire, England. Sheltered in the valley of the River Test, the property is now operated by the National Trust. About 200,000 people visit each year. The site includes the historic house museum, regular changing art exhibitions, gardens (including a walled rose garden) and a river walk. ===His...
Northumberland House (Suffolk House), London, England= Northumberland House (also known as Suffolk House when owned by the Earls of Suffolk) was a large Jacobean townhouse in London, which was so called because for most of its history it was the London residence of the Percy family, who were the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland, and one of England's richest and most prominent aristocrati...