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This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
There was still an obvious dividing line between the parishes of Penn and Beaconsfield, where the boundary stream ran under the Penn Road, and where Beaconsfield's pavement and new houses stopped abruptly. Development at this time included a house by the architect Charles Voysey, completed in 1907. Knotty Green also contains a 20th-century ...
Hedgerley is a village and civil parish in South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. The parish is centred 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Beaconsfield and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south-west of Gerrards Cross. The parish has incorporated the formerly separate parish of Hedgerley Dean since 1934 (which was once a hamlet in parish of Farnham ...
Beaconsfield was Britain's richest town (based on an average house price of £684,474) in 2008. [2] In 2011, it had the highest proportion in the UK of £1 million-plus homes for sale (at 47%, compared to 3.5% nationally).
The house went on to become the home of the Army School of Administration from 1949 and also the home of the Army School of Education from 1950. [3] The Foreign Office "re-education" facility, still known as Wilton Park and still organising conferences, moved out in 1951 and is now based at Wiston House in West Sussex .
Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early ...
Pages in category "Country houses in Buckinghamshire" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The area merged with parts of Eton Rural District to form Beaconsfield District, which in April 1980 was renamed South Bucks District. A successor parish was established to cover the former area of Beaconsfield Urban District, with its council taking the name Beaconsfield Town Council. The 1936 Council Hall in Penn Road became the headquarters ...