"Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip spent their honeymoon at Broadlands in November 1947; Earl Mountbatten, whose home Broadlands was at the time, was Philip's uncle. In 1981, the newly-married Prince and Princess of Wales also spent the first three days of their honeymoon at Broadlands, travelling to the estate by train from London Waterloo. Broadlands is the home of Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma. The house is open to the public for guided tours on weekday afternoons in summer. On 1 August 2004, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert"
"Broadlands Broadlands is an English country house, located in the civil parish of Romsey Extra, near the town of Romsey in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The formal gardens and historic landscape of Broadlands are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The house itself is Grade I listed. 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 granddaughter married Edward St. Barbe,"
"at Broadlands as part of their Turnaround Tour promoting their album Turnaround. Broadlands Broadlands is an English country house, located in the civil parish of Romsey Extra, near the town of Romsey in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The formal gardens and historic landscape of Broadlands are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The house itself is Grade I listed. 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"
"Hampden House Hampden House is a country house in the village of Great Hampden, between Great Missenden and Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It is named after the Hampden family. The Hampdens (later Earls of Buckinghamshire) are recorded as owning the site from before the Norman conquest. They lived continually in the house until 1938. The core of the present house is Elizabethan. However the south wing known as King John's tower, for some anachronistic reason, dates to the 14th century. This tower is constructed of clunch, a building material peculiar to Buckinghamshire, which is a combination of chalk and mud."
"and Champneys (near Wigginton), both in Hertfordshire, and the family still owns Ashton Wold near Oundle in Northamptonshire, the family home of Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild. Further afield, the Rothschild family owns the Exbury estate in Hampshire, world-famous for the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias. Rothschild properties in the home counties Of all the landowners in the home counties, particularly the Buckinghamshire area, none has had more impact on the landscape than the Rothschild family. The country houses that were purchased or built in or around Buckinghamshire included: When Nathan Mayer Rothschild first arrived in London in the"
"became closely aligned with members of the royal family. Edwina Mountbatten was a leading member of London society. Edwina's mother was Amalia Mary Maud Cassel (1879–1911), daughter of the international magnate Sir Ernest Cassel, who was a friend and private financier to the future King Edward VII. Cassel was one of the richest and most powerful men in Europe. When her grandfather died in 1921, Edwina inherited his vast fortune, which included £2 million, the country seat of Broadlands, Romsey, co. Hampshire; Brook House in London; Moulton Paddocks estate in Newmarket, Suffolk; and the seaside home at Branksome Dene in"
"and produced the (broad-lands) the ""gentle descent to the river"". In 1767, a major architectural ""transformation"" was begun by Capability Brown, the celebrated architect and landscape designer, and completed by architect Henry Holland, which led to making Broadlands the Palladian-style mansion seen today. Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston had requested that Brown go there and seize upon the ""capabilities"" of the earlier Tudor and Jacobean manor house. Between 1767 and 1780, William Kent's earlier ""deformalising work"" was completed, as well as further landscaping, planting, clearing and riverside work. Broadlands was the country estate of the 19th-century prime minister Henry John"
"since the 14th century, and in the late 16th century inherited Broadlands in Hampshire by marriage to the heiress. In 1661 his elder brother died and John became heir to his father. In 1671 he matriculated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1674 he entered the Inner Temple as a student of law. he was elected Member of Parliament for Ilchester in 1681 and served as Sheriff of Hampshire 1703-4. He married twice but left no children: He died on 7 September 1723 and as he left no children he appointed his great-great-nephew Humphrey Sydenham (1694–1757) of Combe near Dulverton in"
"of a member of the family, or artists recommended by a member of the Royal Academy. The painting ""Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers"", thought lost in a World War II air raid, was rediscovered in 2009. Bridgewater House, Westminster Bridgwater House is a townhouse located at 14 Cleveland Row in the St James's area of London, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The earliest known house on the site was Berkshire House, built in about 1626-27 for Thomas Howard, second son of the Earl of Suffolk and Master of the Horse to Charles I of England when"
"inherited the title of Lord Brabourne in 2005, and then the earldom in 2017. Like his parents, Charles, Prince of Wales and his first wife Diana, Princess of Wales spent the first part of their honeymoon at Broadlands in 1981. Embley Park, a country estate located on the outskirts of Romsey was the home of Florence Nightingale, known for her pioneering work as a nurse and sanitary reform during the Crimean war and for laying the foundation of modern nursing. Nightingale is said to have had her calling from God whilst sitting under a giant cedar tree in the grounds"
"and the manor remained the property of the St. Barbe family for the next 117 years. Sir John St Barbe, 1st Baronet () made many improvements to the manor but died without progeny having bequeathed it to his cousin Humphrey Sydenham of Combe, Dulverton. In the chancel of Ashington Church, Somerset, is a monument of grey and white marble, inscribed: When Sydenham was ruined by the 18th-century South Sea Bubble, he proceeded to sell Broadlands to Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston in 1736. It was the latter who began the deformalisation of the gardens between the river and the house"
"current owners opened the house as a wedding venue and guest house. Broadstairs, like many coastal places around England, had something of a reputation for smuggling in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The current establishment has a Smugglers Museum below deck. It is still possible to visit one of Charles Dickens' study rooms there. Bleak House, Broadstairs Bleak House (originally known as Fort House) is a prominent house on the cliff overlooking the North Foreland and Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent. It was built around 1801 and then substantially extended, doubling in size, in 1901. The house was the"
"and Dutch Fleets at the Battle of Beachy Head. The house was again enlarged by the Duke of Newcastle, Henry Clinton, who laid out formal gardens. In 1790, Oatlands was leased from the Crown by the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany the second son of George III, and the subject of the nursery rhyme The Grand Old Duke of York. His architect was Henry Holland. In his second London notebook, composer Joseph Haydn recorded a two-day visit in November 1791: He was the guest of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, playing music for four"
"two centuries as a farm and woodland backwater changed quickly in the early 20th century as wealthy New Yorkers built lavish mansions. By the mid-1920s, there were 22 estates, part of the emergence of Nassau's North Shore Gold Coast. One was Broadhollow, the spread of attorney-banker-diplomat Winthrop W. Aldrich, which had a 40-room manor house. The second owner of Broadhollow was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II, who was owner of the Belmont and Pimlico racetracks. Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of cereal creator Charles William Post, and her husband Edward Francis Hutton, the famous financier, built a lavish 70-room mansion on called"
"Northumberland House 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 aristocratic dynasties for many centuries. It stood at the far western end of the Strand from around 1605 until demolished in 1874. In its later years it overlooked Trafalgar Square. In the 16th century the Strand, which connects the City of"
"BBC Television series ""Gunpowder"" (2017). Haddon Hall Haddon Hall is an English country house on the River Wye near Bakewell, Derbyshire, one of the seats of the Duke of Rutland. It is currently occupied by Lord Edward Manners (brother of the current Duke) and his family. In form a medieval manor house, it has been described as ""the most complete and most interesting house of [its] period"". The origins of the hall date to the 11th century. The current medieval and Tudor hall includes additions added at various stages between the 13th and the 17th centuries. The Vernon family acquired"
"grand manor house known today as Fremington House, as is evidenced by at least two elaborate sculpted stone escutcheons showing the arms of Acland impaling Lovering. Richard Acland (1679–1729) Richard II Acland (1679–1729), lord of the manor of Fremington, near Barnstaple in North Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Barnstaple 1708–13. Following his marriage in 1700 to a wealthy heiress he built the large and grand Queen Anne style mansion house known as Fremington House, which survives with 19th century alterations. His arms are displayed on the parapet of Queen Anne's Walk in Barnstaple, as one of about twelve"
"House, Middlesex; and two London mansions on Piccadilly - Devonshire House and Burlington House. In 1907 the Duke owned 192,322 acres across the British Isles, principally in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, County Cork and County Waterford. The traditional burial place of the Dukes of Devonshire is at St Peter's Church, Edensor, in the closest village to Chatsworth House. Most ducal graves can be found on the highest spot of Edensor's churchyard in the Cavendish family plot. ""Other titles (5th & 6th Dukes): Baron Clifford (1628)"" ""Other titles (7th Duke onwards): Earl of Burlington and Baron Cavendish of Keighley, in the county of"
"""Northumberlandia"" (the ""Lady of the North""), a huge land sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure made from mining waste. Blagdon Hall Blagdon Hall () is a privately owned English country house near Cramlington in Northumberland. It is a Grade I listed building. The house and estate have been in the ownership of the White Ridley family since 1698. The present Viscount Ridley is the science writer and hereditary peer Matt Ridley. The hall was built in two phases between about 1720 and 1752 by Matthew White and his son Sir Matthew White, 1st Baronet, whose sister Elizabeth"
"Hawarden Castle (18th century) (New) Hawarden Castle () is a house in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales. It was the estate of the former British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, having previously belonged to the family of his wife, Catherine Glynne. Built in the mid-18th century, it was later enlarged and externally remodelled in the Gothic taste. The core of the present house is formed by a mansion built in 1752–57 for Sir John Glynne, 6th baronet, to the designs of Samuel Turner the elder of Whitchurch. It replaced the 16th century Broadlane Hall, the seat of the Ravenscroft family, which stood"
"and Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861–1923), both authors, and Reverend Professor Rowland Williams (1817–1870), a theologian whose essays and sermons caused him to be charged with heterodoxy. He was later vicar of Broad Chalke and is buried in the church graveyard. Sir Anthony Eden (1897-1977), who served as Prime Minister, also lived in the village. Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), photographer and designer, lived at Reddish House, as did Dr. Lucius Wood, father of the painter Christopher Wood. Beaton entertained and photographed many celebrities in his conservatory. In 1980 Ursula Henderson bought the house from the estate of Cecil Beaton and lived"
"In 1788 Holland continued the remodelling of Broadlands in Hampshire for Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston started by Brown. The exterior was re-clad in yellow brick and a three-bay recessed Ionic portico added on the north front, a tetrastyle Ionic portico was added on the south front, within he added the octagonal domed lobby, also by Holland are the ground floor rooms on the south front library (Wedgwood room), saloon and drawing room, and on the east front the dining room, all in the Adam style. Holland first major commission for the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, was"
"Richard Acland (1679–1729) Richard II Acland (1679–1729), lord of the manor of Fremington, near Barnstaple in North Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Barnstaple 1708–13. Following his marriage in 1700 to a wealthy heiress he built the large and grand Queen Anne style mansion house known as Fremington House, which survives with 19th century alterations. His arms are displayed on the parapet of Queen Anne's Walk in Barnstaple, as one of about twelve such arms representing members of the Corporation of Barnstaple who financed the building, completed in 1713, now grade I listed, originally called the ""Mercantile Exchange"", on"
"Houghton House Houghton House is a ruined mansion house in the parish of Maulden, Bedfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building, positioned above the surrounding countryside, and commands excellent views. It is said that the house was the model for ""House Beautiful"" in John Bunyan's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" (1678). It is today the property of English Heritage, and is open to free public access during daylight hours. The estate of Houghton was granted by King James I of England (1603-1625) to Mary Herbert, Dowager Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621), a.k.a. Mary Sidney, a courtier, writer, translator, and literary patron, who"
"Rottingdean, near Brighton in Sussex, as their holiday home, and soon after the next door Aubrey Cottage to create North End House, reflecting the fact that their Fulham home was in North End Road. (Years later, in 1923, Sir Roderick Jones, head of Reuters, and his wife, playwright and novelist Enid Bagnold, were to add the adjacent Gothic House to the property, which became the inspiration and setting for her play ""The Chalk Garden""). His troubled son Philip, who became a successful portrait painter, died in 1926. His adored daughter Margaret (died 1953) married John William Mackail (1850–1945), the friend"
"Ruddington Hall Ruddington Hall is a country house standing in the grounds of a garden in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England. Ruddington Hall has been included in the art work of Nikolaus Pevsner alongside the Elizabethan Wollaton Hall and Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of Lord Byron. It is imbued with Pevsner's classical ethic of ""calm grandeur, and monumental simplicity"". Ruddington Hall has an interesting history which is briefly explained below. Ruddington Hall was built in 1860. It was designed as a country retreat for Thomas Cross, a wealthy industrialist and banker from Bolton. Together with his wife and some nine servants, he"
"Bridgewater House, Westminster Bridgwater House is a townhouse located at 14 Cleveland Row in the St James's area of London, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The earliest known house on the site was Berkshire House, built in about 1626-27 for Thomas Howard, second son of the Earl of Suffolk and Master of the Horse to Charles I of England when he was Prince of Wales. Howard was later created Earl of Berkshire. After being occupied by Parliamentarian troops in the English Civil War, used for the Portuguese Embassy, and lived in by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of"
"Huddington Court Huddington Court is a 15th-century moated manor house in the village of Huddington in Worcestershire, England, some six miles east of Worcester. It was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as 'the most picturesque house in Worcestershire'. It was the home of the Wintour family, of which the Gunpowder plot conspirators Robert, Thomas and John Wintour are the most notorious . The house is a private residence and is not open to the public. It has been Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England since 1952. The plans of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the"
"Moffatt-Ladd House The Moffatt-Ladd House, also known as the William Whipple House, is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 154 Market Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The 1763 Georgian house was the home of William Whipple (1730–85), a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War general. The house is now owned by the National Society of Colonial Dames in New Hampshire, and is open to the public. Among the contents are Whipple's sword and other personal items, along with a portrait of him. Outside is a horse chestnut tree that Whipple planted in"
"Swallowfield Park Swallowfield Park is a Grade II* listed stately home and estate in the English county of Berkshire. The house is near the village of Swallowfield, some 4 miles south of the town of Reading. Swallowfield Park was the home of the Backhouse family from the late 16th century, who had lived in a now demolished Tudor mansion. The most famous member of this family was of William Backhouse, the Rosicrucian philosopher. The present house at Swallowfield Park was erected in 1689 by Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, when he acquired the estate on his marriage to William"
"the courtesy title ""Marquess of Hartington"", whilst the eldest son of the eldest son may use the title ""Earl of Burlington"", and his eldest son may use the title ""Lord Cavendish"". The family seats are Chatsworth House, Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle in Co Waterford, in the Republic of Ireland. Compton Place in Eastbourne belongs to the family (which developed Eastbourne as a seaside resort in the 19th century) but is let. In 1908 Holker Hall in Lancashire was left to a junior branch of the family. The family previously owned Londesborough Hall, Yorkshire; Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire; Chiswick"
"million to the construction of affordable housing in the borough."" Cambridge House Cambridge House is a grade I listed townhouse in central London. It sits on the northern side of Piccadilly in the fashionable district of Mayfair. The current name of the house comes from one of its owners, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774–1850), the 7th son of King George III, but it was originally known as Egremont House, and later as Cholmondeley House. From about 1865 to 1999 it was the home of the Naval and Military Club, and is known colloquially as the In and Out Club"
"Nottinghamshire. (Robert Thoroton and his wife Mary became parties to a contentious lawsuit with the Blackborne family heirs — Thoroton vs. Blackborne — over an enormous estate left by William Hewer, longtime friend of diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty Samuel Pepys.) In 2005 the family's best-known representative, Myles Thoroton Hildyard, landowner and historian, died at Flintham. Hildyard, a Cambridge-educated landowner and historian, won the Military Cross for his daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp following the Battle of Crete. He also became known for his work at Flintham Hall, a Grade I listed house, which ""The Independent"" noted in"