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  2. Wotton House, Surrey - Wikipedia

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    Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England.Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.

  3. Wotton House - Wikipedia

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    Wotton House, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England, is a stately home built between 1704 and 1714, to a design very similar to that of the contemporary version of Buckingham House. The house is an example of English Baroque and a Grade I listed building .

  4. Wotton, Surrey - Wikipedia

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    In 1548 it was "Wodyngeton alias Wotton" and in 1610 it was "Wutton". The same source explains the name as meaning "Farm by the wood", the first element being "Wood" and the final element being "tun" or farmstead. John Evelyn, the diarist was born at Wotton House in 1620, which includes two grottos in the grounds.

  5. Wootton House - Wikipedia

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    Wootton House is a late 17th-century country house in Wootton, Bedfordshire, England. [1] It is a Grade II* listed building. [2] The house is built to a rectangular plan in two storeys, 8 bays by 5 bays, of stuccoed brick with a hipped tile roof. At the front is a central classical gabled porch with paired Doric pilasters.

  6. John Evelyn - Wikipedia

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    Wotton House and estate passed down to Evelyn's great-great-grandson Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bt (1733–1812). The baronetcy next passed to Frederick Evelyn's cousins, Sir John Evelyn, 4th Bt (1757–1833), and Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bt (1769–1848). Both these two were of unsound mind and the estate was therefore left to a remote cousin ...

  7. Thomas Horton (Gloucester) - Wikipedia

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    Wotton House. Thomas Horton (1676-1727) was the owner of Wotton House, Gloucester|Wotton House, in Horton Road, Gloucester, which was built for him around 1707. [1] [2] He was declared a lunatic. [3] Horton was the son of John Horton of Elkstone, Gloucestershire and his wife Catherine, the daughter of Thomas Child of Northwick, Worcestershire. [4]

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