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The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. ... the Trust owns almost 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres; 2,500 km 2; 970 sq mi) ...
Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England.Owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation, it is one of the National Trust's most visited properties, with over 463,000 visitors in 2019.
The Trust owns large areas of upland, including Ben Lomond. The Trust is the third largest land manager in Scotland, owning 76,000 hectares of Scottish countryside including 46 Munros, 8 national nature reserves, more than 400 islands and islets, and significant stretches of coastline.
Knole (/ n oʊ l /) is a British country house and former archbishop's palace owned by the National Trust.It is situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent.
In 1984, National Trust merged with the Victoria and Grey Trust Company; the new merged company was owned by V&G's holding company, which assumed the name National Trustco. In 1991, the Bank Act was amended to allow bank holding companies to own trust companies, which hitherto had been prohibited.
This national property collection performs the same function as pictures in the National Gallery and the archaeological material in the British Museum. Unlike the National Trust , English Heritage holds few furnished properties, although Charles Darwin's home at Down, Kent (where he wrote On the Origin of Species ) and Brodsworth Hall , South ...
Lanhydrock House, commonly known simply as Lanhydrock, is a country house and estate in the parish of Lanhydrock, Cornwall, UK.. The house stands in extensive grounds (360 hectares or 890 acres) above the River Fowey, and has been owned and managed by the National Trust since 1953. [1]
Annie Wyatt home, Gordon. Modelled on the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and inspired by local campaigns to conserve native bushland and preserve old buildings, the first Australian National Trusts were formed in New South Wales in 1945, South Australia in 1955 and Victoria in 1956; followed later in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. [1]