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This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the gentry of the British Isles. Though the UK is today a constitutional monarchy with strong democratic elements, historically the British Isles were more predisposed towards aristocratic governance in which power was largely inherited and shared amongst a noble class.
Alexander family (British aristocracy) (31 P) Allsopp family (1 C, 9 P) ... List of family seats of Irish nobility; A. Aitken family; Anson family; B. Bowes-Lyon family;
Depiction of Kensington Palace Depiction of Henbury Hall. Britannia Illustrata, also known as Views of Several of the Queens Palaces and also of the Principal Seats of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain is a 1707–09 map plate folio of parts of Great Britain, arguably the most important work of Dutch draughtsman Jan Kip, who collaborated with Leonard Knijff.
People: Artists and writers · Business · Entertainment · Law · Military · Political · Religion · Royalty and nobility · Science and engineering · Sport · Traditional dress · Others This subcategory of people includes all royalty, and such members of the lower ranks of nobility primarily noted for that fact.
A family seat, sometimes just called seat, is the principal residence of the landed gentry and aristocracy. The residence usually denotes the social , economic , political , or historic connection of the family within a given area. [ 1 ]
Nobility from Wiltshire (2 C, 30 P) ... List of family seats of English nobility This page was last edited on 20 June 2024, at 20:48 (UTC). Text ...
Former family seat of the Sitwell family, whose familty seat is now Weston Hall in Northamptonshire. The house was built in 1625 and is a Grade I listed building. [59] The baronetcy was created in 1808. The present 8th baronet bequeathed the Renishaw Hall to his daughter, separating the estate from the baronetcy. [60] Walker-Okeover baronets