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Avebury Manor & Garden

Index Avebury Manor & Garden

Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I-listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. [1]

27 relations: Abbey of Saint-Georges, Boscherville, Alexander Keiller (archaeologist), Ancient monument, Avebury, Avebury, Wiltshire, BBC One, Berkshire, Brooklyn, Buxus, Church of St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Deborah Moody, Dovecote, Gravesend, Brooklyn, John Stawell, Leopold C. D. Jenner, Little Wittenham, Manor house, Marlborough, Wiltshire, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Order of Saint Benedict, Oxfordshire, Priory, Rackets (sport), Topiary, Tower of London, William Dunch (1508–1597), William Sharington.

Abbey of Saint-Georges, Boscherville

Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey located in the commune of Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville, in Seine-Maritime, France.

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Alexander Keiller (archaeologist)

Alexander Keiller FSA FGS (1889–1955) was a Scottish archaeologist, pioneering aerial photographer, businessman and philanthropist who worked on an extensive prehistoric site at Avebury in Wiltshire, England.

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Ancient monument

In British law, an ancient monument is an early historical structure or monument (e.g. an archaeological site) worthy of preservation and study due to archaeological or heritage interest.

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Avebury

Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England.

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Avebury, Wiltshire

Avebury is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Buxus

Buxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae.

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Church of St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay

The Church of St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay is a parish church in the Church of England in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire.

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Deborah Moody

Deborah, Lady Moody (born Deborah Dunch) (1586–1659?) was the only woman to start a village in colonial America; she was the first female landowner in the New World.

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Dovecote

A dovecote or dovecot (Scots: doocot) is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves.

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Gravesend, Brooklyn

Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.

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John Stawell

Sir John Stawell or Stowell (29 August 1600 – 21 February 1662) of Cothelstone in Somerset, was an English Member of Parliament and Royalist governor of Taunton during the English Civil War.

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Leopold C. D. Jenner

Lieutenant-Colonel Leopold Christian Duncan Jenner (24 October 1869 – 20 October 1953) was a British Army officer and polo player.

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Little Wittenham

Little Wittenham is a village and civil parish on the south bank of the River Thames, northeast of Didcot in South Oxfordshire.

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Manor house

A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.

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Marlborough, Wiltshire

Marlborough is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath.

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Priory

A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress.

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Rackets (sport)

Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, and Canada.

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Topiary

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful.

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Tower of London

The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London.

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William Dunch (1508–1597)

William Dunch (1508–1597) was an English politician, a local official in the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire and Auditor of the Royal Mint for Kings Henry VIII and Edward IV.

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William Sharington

Sir William Sharington (born in around 1495, died before 6 July 1553) was an English courtier of the time of Henry VIII, master and embezzler of the Bristol Mint, member of parliament, conspirator, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury_Manor_%26_Garden

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