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Cliveden (pronounced / ˈ k l ɪ v d ən /) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire.The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern Hills close to the South Bucks villages of Burnham and Taplow.
United States historic place Cliveden U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark U.S. National Historic Landmark District Contributing Property Location 6401 Germantown Avenue Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Coordinates 40°02′46″N 75°10′56″W / 40.0461°N 75.1822°W / 40.0461; -75.1822 Area 5.4 acres (2.2 ha) Built 1767 Built by ...
Cliveden Village on site of former Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital. The hospital closed and was abandoned in 1985 and lay derelict for two decades while the National Trust, who owned the site since 1942, explored options for its development. [2] Many pieces of the hospital's old equipment lay there for years.
Between 2008 and 2014 the number of visitors to the gardens and wider grounds at Cliveden rose dramatically. Over that relatively short time period the number of visitors increased from around 180,000 per annum to in excess of 400,000 per annum. Cliveden was transformed into one of the National Trust's busiest pay-for-entry properties.
Charlecote Park (grid reference) is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon in Charlecote near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick in Warwickshire, England.
In 1972 they donated Clytha to the National Trust in lieu of death duties, although the family retained a leasehold on the house where they still live today. [ 6 ] The Clytha estate encompasses Monmouthshire's "two outstanding examples of late eighteenth century Gothic", [ 7 ] the gates to the park and Clytha Castle .
The house was acquired by the nation and was given to the National Trust in part-payment for death duties in 1960. The Elton family is still resident in the house, which is now open to the public. In addition to the main house, the grounds include a selection of walls and outbuildings, some of which date back to the 13th century.
Ightham Mote (/ ˈ aɪ t əm ˈ m oʊ t /), at Ightham, is a medieval moated manor house in Kent, England.The architectural writer John Newman describes it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county".