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This is a list of Grade I listed buildings in Wiltshire, England, in the United Kingdom.. These buildings are protected for their historic significance. There is a parallel system for ancient monuments, known as 'scheduling', which means that there is not a consistent approach to sites like castles, abbeys and henges, which may be listed, scheduled or both.
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 ...
Longford Castle and the River Avon from the air. The castle is Grade I listed [5] and is within Odstock parish. The formal garden, pleasure grounds and park extend into neighbouring parishes and are listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [4] The castle is the seat of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor. [6]
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Wardour Castle or Old Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew in the English county of Wiltshire, about 15 miles (24 km) west of Salisbury.
Longleat is a stately home about 4 miles (7 km) west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. A leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, it is a Grade I listed building and the seat of the Marquesses of Bath.
Bowood is a Grade I listed Georgian country house in Wiltshire, England, that has been owned for more than 250 years by the Fitzmaurice family. The house, with interiors by Robert Adam , stands on extensive grounds which include a garden designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown .
Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, the seat of the Dukes of Newcastle, was demolished in 1938.. When Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, portraying life in the English country house, was published in 1945, its first few chapters offered a glimpse of an exclusive and enviable world, a world of beautiful country houses with magnificent contents, privileged occupants, a profusion of servants ...