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6 unusual facts about Harewood House


Follyfoot

The series, which was filmed on the Harewood family estate, was set at a home of rest for horses.

Harewood House

Still home to the Lascelles family, Harewood House is a member of Treasure Houses of England, a marketing consortium for ten of the foremost historic homes in England.

The house was built from 1759 to 1771 for Edwin Lascelles, whose family had bought the estate after making its fortune in the West Indies through Customs positions, slave trading and lending money to planters.

Designed by the architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built from 1759 to 1771 for wealthy trader Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood.

The Woolpack

The present Woolpack is on the purpose-built Emmerdale village set on the Harewood estate which is based on Esholt.

Window Cornice

Chippendale provided a famous series still in situ for the gallery at Harewood House, the valances of which are, like the cornices themselves, of carved and painted wood.


All Saints' Church, Harewood

All Saints' Church, Harewood is a 15th-century redundant church standing in the park of Harewood House, the seat of the Earls of Harewood, near the village of Harewood, West Yorkshire, England.

Fabian Hamilton

He made his maiden speech on 23 June 1997, in which he explained that his constituency stretches from the inner-city Leeds district of Chapeltown all the way out to Harewood House, the stately home of the Earls of Harewood.

Georgiana Harcourt

In 12 September 1835 when Princess Victoria visited Harewood House in Yorkshire with her mother, the Duchess of Kent she attended the local church service.

Leo Fitzmaurice

His work is included in various collections, including Arts Council Collection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Manchester Art Gallery, Harewood House and Locus Plus Archive.


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