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Lacock Abbey

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Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order. [1]

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Anthony Mildmay

Sir Anthony Mildmay (died 1617) was a country gentleman from Northamptonshire, England, who served as Member of Parliament for Wiltshire from 1584 to 1586 and as English ambassador in Paris in 1597.

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Antiques Roadshow (series 29)

Antiques Roadshow is a British television series produced by the BBC since 1979.

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Baron Mansel

Baron Mansel, of Margam in the County of Glamorgan, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Bath and North East Somerset

Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is the district of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset Council that was created on 1 April 1996 following the abolition of the county of Avon.

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Bowden Hill

Bowden Hill is a village in Wiltshire, England, about south of Chippenham and to the east of Lacock.

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Box, Wiltshire

Box is a large village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about west of Corsham and northeast of Bath.

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Bucranium

Bucranium (plural bucrania; Latin, from Greek βουκράνιον, referring to the skull of an ox) was a common form of carved decoration in Classical architecture used to fill the metopes between the triglyphs of the frieze of Doric temples.

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Cabinet (room)

A cabinet (also known by other terms) was a private room in the houses and palaces of early modern Europe serving as a study or retreat, usually for a man.

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Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect.

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Chapter house

A chapter house or chapterhouse is a building or room that is part of a cathedral, monastery or collegiate church in which larger meetings are held.

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Chippenham

Chippenham is a large historic market town in northwest Wiltshire, England.

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Chris Meigh-Andrews

Chris Meigh-Andrews is a video artist, writer and curator from Essex, England, whose work often includes elements of renewable energy technology in tandem with moving image and sound.

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Christmas tree

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as spruce, pine, or fir or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

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Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot FRS (10 May 1803 – 17 January 1890) was a Welsh landowner, industrialist and Liberal politician.

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Corinne Bennett

Corinne Marie Gillian Bennett (3 March 1935 – 10 July 2010) was an English conservation architect.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Edward of Salisbury

Edward of Salisbury was a nobleman and courtier (curialis), probably part Anglo-Saxon, who served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire during the reigns of William I, William II and Henry I. The Chronicon Abbatiae Rameseiensis (1293) names him as a justice during the reign of Edward the Confessor.

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Edwin Bezar

Sergeant Major Edwin Bezar (18 February 1838 – 6 February 1936) was an English soldier and author who fought in the Crimean War, counter-insurgency in the Aden Settlement and the New Zealand Wars.

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Ela Longespee

Ela Longespee, Lady of Ashby (1244 – c. 19 July 1276) was a wealthy heiress and daughter of Stephen Longespee, Justiciar of Ireland, and Emmeline de Riddlesford, granddaughter of Walter de Riddlesford.

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Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury

Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury (1187 – 24 August 1261) was a wealthy English heiress and the suo jure Countess of Salisbury, having succeeded to the title in 1196 upon the death of her father, William FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Salisbury.

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Expositiones vocabulorum biblie

The Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie (Exposition of Bible Words) is a hand-written, parchment book in Latin written (or inspired) by the 12th century clergyman William Brito (Guillaume le Breton).

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Fox Primary School

Fox Primary School is a primary school in London for children between the ages of 4 and 11, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1 February 1580 – 23 March 1629), styled Sir Francis Fane between 1603 and 1624 was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1624 and then was raised to the Peerage as Earl of Westmorland.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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Gilbert Talbot (courtier)

Sir Gilbert Talbot, FRS (c. 1606–1695) was an English courtier and MP.

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Grace Mildmay

Grace Mildmay (née Sharington or Sherrington; ca. 1552–1620) was an English noblewoman, diarist and medical practitioner.

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Grade I listed buildings in Wiltshire

This is a list of Grade I listed buildings in Wiltshire, England, in the United Kingdom.

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Harold Brakspear

Sir Harold Brakspear KCVO (10 March 1870 – 20 November 1934) was a noted restoration architect and archaeologist.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (11 February 180017 September 1877) was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.

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Hensol Castle

Hensol Castle (previously Hensol House) is a castellated mansion in the gothic architecture style dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, now a wedding and conference venue for The Vale Resort.

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High Sheriff of Wiltshire

This is a list of Sheriffs and (after 1 April 1974) High Sheriffs of Wiltshire.

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Hinton Charterhouse

Hinton Charterhouse is a small village and civil parish in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England.

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History of Lacock

Lacock was first mentioned in the Domesday book in 1086 with a population of less than 200; with two small mills and a vineyard.

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History of Somerset

Somerset is a historic county in the south west of England.

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History of Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a historic county located in the South West England region.

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Jane Martha St. John

Jane Martha St.

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John Ivory-Talbot

John Ivory-Talbot (?1691-1772), of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, was an English politician.

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John Talbot of Lacock

Sir John Talbot of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, Long Acre, Westminster, and Salwarpe, Worcestershire (7 June 1630 – 13 March 1714), was an English soldier, politician, and landowner, who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1660 and 1687.

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Kington St. Michael Priory

Kington St.

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Lacock

Lacock is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) south of the town of Chippenham.

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Lacock (disambiguation)

Lacock is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England.

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Lacock Abbey (monastery)

Lacock Abbey was a monastery founded at Lacock, in the county of Wiltshire in England, in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a house of Augustinian Canonesses regular.

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List of country houses in the United Kingdom

This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.

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List of gardens in England

Gardens in England is a link page for any garden, botanical garden, arboretum or pinetum open to the public in England.

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List of historic buildings of the United Kingdom

The historic buildings of the United Kingdom date from prehistoric times onwards.

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List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England

These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

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List of monastic houses in Wiltshire

The following is a list of monastic houses in Wiltshire, England.

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List of museums in Wiltshire

This list of museums in Wiltshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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List of National Trust properties in England

This is a list of National Trust properties in England, including any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of the National Trust in England.

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List of places in Wiltshire

This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England.

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Margam Castle

Margam Castle is a large Victorian era country house, built in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, for Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890).

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Mary Mildmay

Mary Mildmay, or Mary Fane Countess of Westmorland (b. c.1582 - d. 9 April 1640).

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Northcourt Manor

Northcourt Manor is one of three manor houses, along with Woolverton and Westcourt, that is located in Shorwell, on the Isle of Wight, England.

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Places in Harry Potter

J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' universe contains numerous settings for the events in her fantasy novels.

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Sanderson Miller

Sanderson Miller (1716 – 23 April 1780) was an English pioneer of Gothic revival architecture and landscape designer.

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Schatzkammer

Schatzkammer, a German word which means treasury or treasure chamber, is a term used in English for the collection of treasures, especially objet d'art in precious metals and jewels, of a ruler or other collector which are kept in a secure room and often found in the basement of a palace or castle.

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The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box is a 2014 British fantasy adventure film starring Michael Sheen, Sam Neill, Lena Headey, Ioan Gruffudd, Keeley Hawes, Tristan Gemmill, and Aneurin Barnard in the title role and directed by Jonathan Newman.

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The Continence of Scipio

The Continence of Scipio, or The Clemency of Scipio, is an episode recounted by Livy of the Roman general Scipio Africanus during his campaign in Spain during the Second Punic War.

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The Pencil of Nature

The Pencil of Nature, published in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was the "first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published" or "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs".

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Thomas Legh (lawyer)

Sir Thomas Leigh or Legh (?1511-1545) was an English jurist and diplomat, who played a key role as agent of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

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William Denys

Sir William Denys (1470–1533) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, was a courtier of King Henry VIII and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1518 and 1526.

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William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury

William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c. 1176 – 7 March 1226) ("Long Sword", Latinised to de Longa Spatha) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, primarily remembered for his command of the English forces at the Battle of Damme and for remaining loyal to his half-brother, King John.

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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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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Wolf Hall (miniseries)

Wolf Hall is a British television serial first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2015.

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1830s

The 1830s decade ran from January 1, 1830, to December 31, 1839.

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1835

No description.

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1835 in art

Events from the year 1835 in art.

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1835 in science

The year 1835 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1835 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1835 in the United Kingdom.

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1947 New Year Honours

The 1947 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacock_Abbey

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