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Stowe House

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Stowe House is a grade I listed country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. [1]

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Agostino Brunias

Agostino Brunias (c. 1730 – April 2, 1796) was a London-based Italian painter from Rome.

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Alexander Temple

Sir Alexander Temple (1583–1629) was a landowner and Member of Parliament.

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Angus Stirling

Sir Angus Duncan Aeneas Stirling, Kt, Hon.

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Anna Chamber

Anne Chamber (also known as Anna Grenville-Temple, Countess Temple) (died 7 April 1777) was a British noblewoman and poet.

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Art auction

An art auction or fine art auction is the sale of art works, in most cases in an auction house.

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Aylesbury Vale

The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a large area of gently rolling agricultural landscape located in the northern half of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Banbury to Verney Junction branch line

The Banbury to Verney Junction branch line was a railway branch line constructed by the Buckinghamshire Railway which connected the Oxfordshire market town of Banbury with the Buckinghamshire town of Bletchley via the historic county town of Buckingham and the Northamptonshire town of Brackley, a distance of.

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Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (23 November 1797 – 22 June 1878) was a British peer.

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Bertram Ashburnham, 5th Earl of Ashburnham

Bertram Ashburnham, 5th Earl of Ashburnham (28 October 1840 – 15 January 1913) was a British peer.

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Boldon Book

The Boldon Book contains the results of a survey of the bishopric of Durham that was completed on the orders of Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham, in 1183, designed to assist the administration of the vast diocesan estates.

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Brill Tramway

The Brill Tramway, also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway Brill Branch, was a six-mile (10 km) rail line in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England.

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British country house contents auctions

British and Irish country house contents auctions are usually held on site at the country house, and have been used to raise funds for their owners, usually before selling the house and estate.

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Bruges Garter Book

William Bruges dressed as Garter King of Arms, kneels before St George, from his Garter Book The Bruges Garter Book is a 15th-century illuminated manuscript containing portraits of the founder knights of the Order of the Garter.

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Buckingham

Buckingham is a town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which had a population of 12,043 at the 2011 Census.

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Buckingham railway station

Buckingham was a railway station which served Buckingham, the former county town of Buckinghamshire, England, between 1850 and 1966.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr (alternatively spelled Katherine, Katheryn or Katharine, signed 'Katheryn the Quene KP') was Queen of England and Ireland (1543–47) as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII, and the final queen consort of the House of Tudor.

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Caversham Park

Caversham Park is a Victorian stately home with parkland in the suburb of Caversham, on the outskirts of Reading, England.

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Celtic Rite

The term "Celtic Rite" is applied to the various liturgical rites used in Celtic Christianity in Britain, Ireland and Brittany and the monasteries founded by St. Columbanus and Saint Catald in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy during the early middle ages.

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Charles Bridgeman

Charles Bridgeman (1690–1738) was an English garden designer who helped pioneer the naturalistic landscape style.

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Charles Cameron (architect)

Charles Cameron (1745 – 19 March 1812) was a Scottish architect who made an illustrious career at the court of Catherine II of Russia.

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Charles O'Conor (historian)

Charles O'Conor, O'Conor Don (Cathal Ó Conchubhair Donn; 1 January 1710 – 1 July 1791), also known as Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, was an Irish writer and antiquarian who was enormously influential as a protagonist for the preservation of Irish culture and history in the eighteenth century.

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Charles Peart

Charles Peart (22 December 1759 – 1798) was a British sculptor of the late 18th century.

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Chatham Vase

The Chatham Vase is a stone sculpture by John Bacon commissioned as a memorial to William Pitt the Elder by his wife, Hester, Countess of Chatham.

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Chesme Church

The Chesme Church (Чесменская церковь; full name Church of Saint John the Baptist at Chesme Palace, also called the Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, це́рковь Рождества́ Иоа́нна Предте́чи при Че́сменском Дворце́), is a small Russian Orthodox church at 12 Lensoveta Street, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Chinese garden

The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years.

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Chiswick House

Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, west London, England.

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Christophe Veyrier

Christophe Veyrier (25 June 1637 – 10 June 1689) was a French sculptor, the nephew and follower of Pierre Puget.

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Claydon House

Claydon House is a country house in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, near the village of Middle Claydon.

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Cobhamites

The Cobhamite faction (often known as Cobham's Cubs) were an 18th-century British political faction built around Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham and his supporters.

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Cottesbrooke Hall

Cottesbrooke Hall and the Cottesbrooke estate in Northamptonshire, England is a Grade I listed country house and estate.

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Descendants of Henry IV of France

Henry IV of France was the first Bourbon king of France.

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Descendants of Louis XIV of France

The descendants of Louis XIV of France (1638–1715), Bourbon monarch of the Kingdom of France, are numerous.

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Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, also known as the English Grounds of Wörlitz, is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany and continental Europe.

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Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain

The destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain was a phenomenon brought about by a change in social conditions during which a large number of country houses of varying architectural merit were demolished by their owners.

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Doctor Dido

Doctor Dido is a historical novel by the British writer F. L. Lucas.

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Earl Temple of Stowe

Earl Temple of Stowe, in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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English country houses with changed use

Many English country houses have experienced a change of use and are no longer privately occupied.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Epaminondas

Epaminondas (Ἐπαμεινώνδας, Epameinondas; d. 362 BC) was a Theban general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a pre-eminent position in Greek politics.

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Francesco Sleter

Francesco Sleter (1685 – 29 August 1775) was an Italian painter, active in England.

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French landscape garden

The French landscape garden (jardin paysager, jardin a l'anglaise, jardin pittoresque, jardin anglo-chinois) is a style of garden inspired by idealized romantic landscapes and the paintings of Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, European ideas about Chinese gardens, and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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G. Wilson Knight

George Richard Wilson Knight (1897–1985) was an English literary critic and academic, known particularly for his interpretation of mythic content in literature, and The Wheel of Fire, a collection of essays on Shakespeare's plays.

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Giovanni Battista Borra

Giovanni Battista Borra (27 December 1713 - November 1770) was an Italian architect, engineer and architectural draughtsman.

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Grade I listed buildings in Buckinghamshire

There are approximately 372,905 listed buildings in England and 2.5% of these are Grade I. This page is a list of these buildings in the county of Buckinghamshire, by district.

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Grade II* listed buildings in Aylesbury Vale

There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England.

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Grand Prix Ball

The Grand Prix Ball (GP Ball) at London's Hurlingham Club is an annual charity gala held prior to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

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Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–19

This is a list of Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–2019.

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Ha-ha

A ha-ha is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond.

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Hamilton Gardens

Hamilton Gardens is a public garden park in the south of Hamilton owned and managed by Hamilton City Council in New Zealand.

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Helmdon

Helmdon is a village and civil parish about north of Brackley in South Northamptonshire, England.

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Henry Hawkins Tremayne

The Reverend Henry Hawkins Tremayne (1741–1829) was a member of a landed family in the English county of Cornwall, and owner of the Heligan estate near Mevagissey, with significant interests in the Cornish tin mining industry.

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Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham

Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham, 1st Baroness Chatham (8 November 1720 – 9 April 1803), who was Baroness Chatham in her own right, was the wife of William Pitt (the Elder), 1st Earl of Chatham, who was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768.

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High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire

The High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, in common with other counties, was originally the King's representative on taxation upholding the law in Saxon times.

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Highclere Castle

Highclere Castle is a country house in the Jacobethan style by the architect Charles Barry, with a park designed by Capability Brown.

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Hilton London Paddington

The Hilton London Paddington, formerly the Great Western Royal Hotel, is a hotel that forms part of the Paddington Station complex in London, England.

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History of gardening

The history of ornamental gardening may be considered as aesthetic expressions of beauty through art and nature, a display of taste or style in civilized life, an expression of an individual's or culture's philosophy, and sometimes as a display of private status or national pride—in private and public landscapes.

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House of Orléans

The 4th House of Orléans, sometimes called House of Bourbon-Orléans (Maison de Bourbon-Orléans) to distinguish it, is the fourth holder of a surname previously used by several branches of the Royal House of France, all descended in the legitimate male line from the dynasty's founder, Hugh Capet.

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James Gibbs

James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects.

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James Hammond (author)

James Hammond (1710–1742) was an English poet and politician.

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James Moore (furniture designer)

ïJames Moore (c. 1670 - October 1726) was an 18th-century cabinet maker in London who worked for George I. He was in partnership with John Gumley from 1714.

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James Temple

James Temple (1606–1680) was a puritan and English Civil War soldier who was convicted of the regicide of Charles I. Born in Rochester, Kent, to a well-connected gentry family, he was the second of two sons of Sir Alexander Temple, although his elder brother died in 1627.

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John Barnard (British politician)

Sir John Barnard (c. 1685 – 28 August 1764) was a British Whig politician and Lord Mayor of London.

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John Cheere

John Cheere (1709–1787) was an English sculptor, born in London.

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John Michael Rysbrack

Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack (27 June 1694 – 8 January 1770), was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor.

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John Soane

Sir John Soane (né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style.

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John Vanbrugh

Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.

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Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food.

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Jonathan Myles-Lea

Jonathan Myles-Lea (born 1969) is an English painter of country houses, historic buildings, and landscapes in a miniaturist technique, typically taking the form of aerial views.

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Joseph Francis Nollekens

Joseph Francis Nollekens (Josef Frans Nollekens) (1702–1748) was a Flemish painter, baptised as Corneille François Nollekens and often called "Old Nollekens" in English.

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Lackeen Castle

Lackeen Castle, a tower house within a bawn built in the 12th century as a Kennedy stronghold (rebuilt in the 16th century).

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Lady Anna Eliza Mary Gore-Langton

Anna Gore Langton or Lady Anna Eliza Mary Gore-Langton (February 1820 – 3 February 1879) was an English campaigner for women's rights.

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Landmark Trust

The Landmark Trust is a British building conservation charity, founded in 1965 by Sir John and Lady Smith, that rescues buildings of historic interest or architectural merit and then makes them available for holiday rental.

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Laurence Whistler

Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler, CBE (born 21 January 1912 – died 19 December 2000, always referred to as Laurence Whistler) was a British poet and artist.

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Lemuel Gulliver

Lemuel Gulliver is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.

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Lilliput and Blefuscu

Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

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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 historic buildings of the United Kingdom

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

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List of landscape gardens

This a list of notable "English" landscape gardens.

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List of miscellaneous works by Edward Blore

Edward Blore (1787–1879) was an English antiquarian, artist, and architect.

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List of museums in Buckinghamshire

This list of museums in Buckinghamshire, 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 post-Roman triumphal arches

This is a list of post-Roman triumphal arches.

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List of works by John Vanbrugh

John Vanbrugh created many disparate works, and this is a list of many of the notable ones.

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Lyttelton family

The Lyttelton family (sometimes also spelled Littleton) is a British aristocratic family.

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Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss

The Rt.

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Master of the Mornauer Portrait

The Master of the Mornauer Portrait was a 15th-century German portrait painter active in Bavaria or Tyrol about 1460–1488.

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Medici lions

The Medici lions are a pair of marble sculptures of lions, one of which is Roman, dating to the 2nd century AD, and the other a 16th-century pendant; both were by 1598 placed at the Villa Medici, Rome.

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Mistress Masham's Repose

Mistress Masham's Repose (1946) is a novel by T. H. White that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of Lilliputians, a race of tiny people from Jonathan Swift's satirical classic Gulliver's Travels.

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Moggerhanger House

Moggerhanger House is a Grade I-listed country house in Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire, England, designed by the eminent architect John Soane.

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Nathaniel Fiennes

Nathaniel Fiennes (c. 1608 – 16 December 1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Orléanist

The Orléanists were a French right-wing (except for 1814–1830) faction which arose out of the French Revolution as opposed to Legitimists.

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Parc Monceau

Parc Monceau is a public park situated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the junction of Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony and Rue Georges Berger.

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Paul Walsh (priest)

Father Paul Walsh (An tAthair Pól Breathnach), (19 June 1885 – 18 June 1941) was an Irish priest and historian.

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Pavlovsk Palace

Pavlovsk Palace (Павловский дворец) is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by the order of Catherine the Great for her son, Grand Duke Paul, in Pavlovsk, within Saint Petersburg.

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Pavlovsk Park

The Pavlovsk Park (Павловский парк) is the park surrounding the Pavlovsk Palace, an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by Tsar Paul I of Russia near Saint Petersburg.

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Percy Warrington

The Reverend Percy Ewart Warrington (1889–1961) was an educationist and evangelical Church of England clergyman.

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Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.

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Port Lympne Mansion

Port Lympne, at Lympne, Kent is an early 20th-century country house built for Sir Philip Sassoon by Herbert Baker and Philip Tilden.

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Prince Philippe, Count of Paris

Prince Philippe of Orléans, Count of Paris (Louis Philippe Albert; 24 August 1838 – 8 September 1894), was the grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French.

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Princess Hélène of Orléans

Princess Hélène of Orléans (Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 in York House, Twickenham – 21 January 1951 in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta.

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Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans

Marie Isabelle d’Orléans (María Isabel de Borbón; 21 September 1848 – 23 April 1919) was born an infanta of Spain and a Princess of Orléans and became the Countess of Paris by marriage.

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Ptolemy Dean

Ptolemy Dean (born 1968) is a British architect, television presenter and the 19th Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey.

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Quainton Road railway station

Quainton Road railway station was opened in 1868 in under-developed countryside near Quainton, in the English county of Buckinghamshire, from London.

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Richard Leveson

Sir Richard Leveson (1598–1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642.

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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham

Field Marshal Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (24 October 1675 – 14 September 1749) was a British soldier and Whig politician.

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Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, (11 February 1797 – 29 July 1861), styled Viscount Cobham from birth until 1813, Earl Temple between 1813 and 1822 and Marquess of Chandos between 1822 and 1839, was a British Tory politician.

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Sandleford

Sandleford is a hamlet and former parish in the English county of Berkshire.

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Silvanus Bevan

Silvanus Bevan FRS (1691–8 June 1765) was an apothecary, who founded the London firm of Allen & Hanburys.

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Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School

Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

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Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet

Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet (28 March 1634 – 8 May 1697) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1697.

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Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet

Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet (1686 – 14 September 1751) was an English landowner and politician from the Lyttelton family.

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Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe

Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet (9 January 1567 – February 1637), was an English landowner and Member of Parliament.

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Souvenir (song)

"Souvenir" is a song written by Paul Humphreys and Martin Cooper of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and released as the first single from their 1981 album Architecture & Morality.

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Stanley Park, Blackpool

Stanley Park is a public park in the town of Blackpool on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England.

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Stowe

Stowe may refer to.

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Stowe manuscripts

The Stowe manuscripts are a collection of about 2,000 Irish, Anglo-Saxon and later medieval manuscripts, nearly all now in the British Library.

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Stowe Missal

The Stowe Missal, which is, strictly speaking, a sacramentary rather than a missal, is an Irish illuminated manuscript written mainly in Latin with some Gaelic in the late eighth or early ninth century, probably after 792.

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Stowe Psalter

The Stowe Psalter (British Library Stowe 2, also known as Spelman Psalter or King Alfred's Psalter) is a psalter from the "2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century", at the end of Anglo-Saxon art.

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Stowe School

Stowe School is a selective independent school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

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Stowe, Buckinghamshire

Stowe is a civil parish and former village about northwest of Buckingham in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Stowe, Kilkhampton

Stowe House in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, England, UK, was a mansion built in 1679 by John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701) and demolished in 1739.

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Streatham Worthies

The Streatham Worthies is the collective description for the circle of literary and cultural figures around the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale and his wife Hester Thrale who assembled at his country retreat Streatham Park and were commemorated by a series of portraits by Joshua Reynolds.

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The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum

The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum is a large 1822 painting by English artist John Martin.

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The Leasowes

The Leasowes is a 57-hectare (around 141 acre) estate in Halesowen, historically in the county of Shropshire, England, comprising house and gardens.

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The Wolfman (2010 film)

The Wolfman is a 2010 American horror film and a remake of the 1941 film of the same name.

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Thomas Astle

Thomas Astle FRS FRSE FSA (22 December 1735 – 1 December 1803) was an English antiquary and palaeographer.

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Thomas Grenville (Royal Navy officer)

Thomas Grenville (4 April 1719 – 3 May 1747) was an officer of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament for Bridport.

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Tim Knox

Timothy Aidan John Knox, (born 9 August 1962) is a British art historian and museum director.

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Time Team (specials)

This is a list of Time Team Special episodes, aired between 1997 and 2014.

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Victory column

A victory column—or monumental column or triumphal column—is a monument in the form of a column, erected in memory of a victorious battle, war, or revolution.

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Vincenzo Valdrè

Vincenzo Valdrè, also known as Vincent Waldré (1740–1814), was an Italian artist and architect who was born in Faenza and brought up in Parma, but who practiced in a Neoclassical-style in England and Ireland.

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Viscount Cobham

Viscount Cobham is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was created in 1718.

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Viscount Palmerston

Viscount Palmerston was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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West Wycombe Park

West Wycombe Park is a country house built between 1740 and 1800 near the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England.

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William Gresley (divine)

William Gresley (16 March 1801 – 19 November 1876) was an English divine.

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William Kent

William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.

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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British statesman of the Whig group who led the government of Great Britain twice in the middle of the 18th century.

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Woburn Abbey

Woburn Abbey occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford.

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Wood Siding railway station

Wood Siding railway station was a halt in Bernwood Forest, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Wotton House

Wotton House, or Wotton, in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England, is a stately home built between 1704 and 1714, to a design very similar to that of the contemporary version of Buckingham House.

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1779 in architecture

The year 1779 in architecture involved some significant events.

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1779 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1779 in Great Britain.

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2002 World Monuments Watch

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization, World Monuments Fund (WMF) that is dedicated to preserving and safeguarding the historic, artistic, and architectural heritage of humankind.

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2004 World Monuments Watch

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) that is dedicated to preserving the historic, artistic, and architectural heritage around the world.

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24 Hours in the Past

24 Hours in the Past was a BBC One living history TV series first broadcast in 2015.

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References

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

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