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Wentworth Woodhouse (east front) from A Complete History of the County of York by Thomas Allen (1828–30). The west front; this was the original house Wentworth Woodhouse comprises two joined houses, forming west and east fronts.
He came from Mattersey Hall, North Elmsall, Yorkshire, and was a member of a collateral branch of the family of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, also of Wentworth Woodhouse. [ 9 ] William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872) was an Australian explorer, journalist, politician and author, and one of the leading figures of early colonial New ...
Needle's Eye is a 14-metre (46 ft) pyramid Grade II* listed building which is situated in Wentworth, South Yorkshire in northern England. Needle's Eye is one of several follies in and around Wentworth Woodhouse park; the others include Hoober Stand and Keppel's Column.
The parish includes the village of Wentworth and the surrounding area. The most important building in the parish is Wentworth Woodhouse, a large country house, which is described as "one of England's greatest and most remarkable houses", and is "celebrated for being the longest front of any English country house". [1]
The Wentworth Estate is a private estate of large houses set in about 2.7 sq mi (7 km 2) of woodland, in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey. It lies on a gently undulating area of coniferous heathland , around 0.75 mi (1.21 km) south west of the centre of Virginia Water .
The family seat of Wentworth Woodhouse was sold while the more than 80,000-acre (320 km 2) estate including much of the town of Malton, North Yorkshire, was retained. The other family seat, Milton Hall , and its considerable estate of over 50,000 acres (200 km 2 ) together with valuable properties in Peterborough and the surrounding area ...
Sir George Wentworth (baptised 20 July 1609) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He fought for the Royalist army in the English Civil War . Wentworth was the son of Sir William Wentworth, 1st Baronet of Wentworth Woodhouse and his wife Anne Atkins daughter of Robert Atkins, of Stowell, Gloucestershire.
Memorial to Thomas Watson-Wentworth in the north choir aisle of York Minster. Hon. Thomas Watson, later known as Thomas Watson-Wentworth (17 June 1665 – 6 October 1723), of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1723.