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Sauvey SK786052 Lost place in Withcote, recorded as Salvee in 1229, was the location of Sauvey Castle [22] Shelthorpe SK545185 Deserted Medieval Village in Loughborough; Schirdiccotes Lost place in Thurmaston, recorded about 1320, a similar name to Shirtecoat in Great Bowden [26]
The site was a manor prior to its purchase in 1740, from the estate of Anthony Carew, [3] by the Wiltshire family. The Wiltshires commissioned John Wood, the Elder to design the house and grounds. Thomas Gainsborough was a frequent visitor and painted several canvases in the orangery of the house including that of Edward Orpin, Parish Clerk of ...
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In the 1914–18 war the castle was a hospital. [2] In the 1939–45 war the castle was occupied by British and American troops and entertained Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Gen. Mark Clark and Maj. Gen. Sir Michael O'Moore Creagh. [2] Longford Castle is shown from the air at the end of the 2001 film The Princess Diaries as the castle in ...
Dyrham Park (/ ˈ d ɪ r əm /) is a baroque English country house in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England.The house, with the attached orangery and stable block, is a Grade I listed building, while the park is Grade II* listed on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
The castle was held directly by the Norman kings; its castellan was generally also the sheriff of Wiltshire. In 1075, the Council of London established Herman as the first bishop of Salisbury (Seriberiensis episcopus), [20] uniting his former sees of Sherborne and Ramsbury into a single diocese which covered the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire ...
The house has been much used as a film location, including: Libel (1959); several episodes of the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who, and for 30 years a Doctor Who Exhibition was hosted on the grounds, [5] with an event celebrating the series's 20th anniversary being held at the house at Easter 1983; the Indian Hindi film Mohabbatein (2000); [6] [7] and the BBC show How to ...
Zeals is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England.The village is about 2.2 miles (3.5 km) west of Mere, next to the A303 road towards Wincanton, and adjoins the villages of Bourton, Dorset and Penselwood, Somerset.