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  2. Waddesdon Manor - Wikipedia

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    Listed Building – Grade I. Reference no. 11117804. 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. [ 1 ]

  3. Waddesdon railway station - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates. 51°51′19″N 0°54′08″W  /  51.8554°N 0.9021°W  / 51.8554; -0.9021. London transport portal. Waddesdon is a closed station that served the village of Waddesdon and its manor, to the north of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The station is not to be confused with Waddesdon Road railway station at the other ...

  4. Eythrope - Wikipedia

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    Eythrope (previously Ethorp) is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the south east of the main village of Waddesdon. It was bought in the 1870s by a branch of the Rothschild family, and belongs to them to this day. Eythrope is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for ...

  5. Rothschild properties in the home counties - Wikipedia

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    Rothschild properties in the home counties. Waddesdon Manor, the north entrance facade. In the 19th century members of the English Rothschild family bought and built many country houses in the home counties, furnishing them with the art the family collected. The area of the Vale of Aylesbury, where many of the houses were situated, became known ...

  6. Waddesdon - Wikipedia

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    Waddesdon / ˈwɒdzdən / is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, 6 miles (10 km) west-north-west of Aylesbury on the A41 road. The village also includes the hamlets of Eythrope and Wormstone. Waddesdon was an agricultural settlement with milling, silk weaving and lace making enterprises.

  7. Waddesdon Bequest - Wikipedia

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    In 1898, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed to the British Museum as the Waddesdon Bequest the contents from his New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor. This consisted of a wide-ranging collection of almost 300 objets d'art et de vertu , which included exquisite examples of jewellery, plate, enamel, carvings, glass and maiolica .

  8. Flint House, Buckinghamshire - Wikipedia

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    Flint House is a domestic dwelling on the Waddesdon Estate, Buckinghamshire, England. It was commissioned by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and completed in 2015, winning that year's RIBA House of the Year Award. [ 1] The architect was Charlotte Skene Catling, a partner of Skene Catling de la Peña.

  9. Alice Charlotte von Rothschild - Wikipedia

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    In late 1898, following the death of her brother, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, Alice inherited Waddesdon Manor and his London House. During World War I she had the formal gardens at Waddesdon and Eythrope given over to the growing of vegetables for the less fortunate. The Eythrope Pavilion was still maintained but now as even more of an ...