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Longleat is a stately home about 4 miles (7 km) west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. A leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house , it is a Grade I listed building and the seat of the Marquesses of Bath .
The park is in the grounds of Longleat House, a stately home which is open to the public and is the home of the 8th Marquess of Bath. Longleat Safari Park and the concept of safari parks were the brainchild of Jimmy Chipperfield (1912–1990), former co-director of Chipperfield's Circus.
Longleat Priory was a priory near Warminster, Wiltshire, in the south of England. A short-lived priory was established and dissolved near to Longleat in the 12th century. The main priory was established before 1233 and was under the control of the Dean of Salisbury until its dissolution in 1529. The site is currently occupied by Longleat House.
Longleat is a historic house in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built from 1928 to 1932 for Thomas J. Tyne. [ 2 ] It was designed by architect Bryant Fleming . [ 2 ] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 16, 1984.
Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (6 May 1932 – 4 April 2020), styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, was an English peer and landowner, owner of the Longleat estate, who sat in the House of Lords from 1992 until 1999, and an artist and author.
Animal Park is a BBC television documentary series about the lives of keepers and animals at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park, Wiltshire, England.The show is presented by Kate Humble, Ben Fogle and Megan McCubbin, with appearances by members of Longleat staff and the landowners, the Thynn family.
Longleat House, which he inherited aged 4; painting by Jan Siberechts, 1675. On 28 July 1714, aged four, on the death of his great uncle Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, he inherited Longleat House and its great estates and succeeded to the baronetcy of Thynne, of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, and (by special remainder) to the titles of Baron Thynne of Warminster, Wiltshire, and Viscount ...
Longleat Safari announced Nico's death on 8 January 2018, at the time of his death, at 56 years old, he was the third oldest Western lowland gorilla in Europe and was thought to be the fifth oldest gorilla in the world, and the second oldest in the UK behind Babydoll. [2]