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unusual facts about country estate



Elveden

Elveden Hall is the centrepiece of the Elveden Estate, a vast country estate that is now the family seat of the Anglo-Irish Guinness family, Earls of Iveagh.

Rockcorry

According to the Introduction to the Dartrey Papers (published by P.R.O.N.I. in Belfast and available to view online), part of the Fairfield Estate, the Corry family's country estate that included Rockcorry, was bought for The 3rd Baron Cremorne (1817-1897), the young head of the Dawson family of neighbouring Dartrey, in 1831.


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Archerfield

Archerfield Estate and Links, a country estate and pair of golf courses in East Lothian, Scotland

Arthur Greiser

Koppe and SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Lange proceeded to manage the problem by experimenting at a country estate at Chełmno nad Nerem with gas vans, establishing the first extermination unit which ultimately carried out the mass murder of approximately 150,000 Jews between late 1941 and April 1942.

Canons Park

Canons Park is largely located on the site of Cannons, a magnificent early 18th-century country estate built between 1713–25, by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos.

Charles E. Cox

By 1930, Cox had moved to a country estate and farm on the northeast side of Indianapolis (Lawrence Township).

Daniel Carr

Carr is the younger brother of actor Gary Carr, who appeared as jazz singer Jack Ross in series four of Downton Abbey, Julian FellowesITV blockbuster, set in a fictional Yorkshire country estate and depicting the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era.

David Henry Hickman

David H. Hickman High School was built on his country estate in 1927 and named after him.

Delbarton, West Virginia

The name Delbarton comes from the New Jersey country estate of one of the officials of the United Thacker Land Company on which a school is located with the same name, Delbarton School.

Douglas Hogg

When the Daily Telegraph in 2009 exposed that Hogg had claimed upwards of £2,000 of taxpayers' money for the purposes of cleaning the moat around his country estate, Kettlethorpe Hall, he became one of the most prominent illustrations used by the media to portray the extent of the expenses scandal, though Hogg always maintained that the allegation was untrue.

Duncan Lawrie

The bank has several offices across the United Kingdom, including a branch in Bristol, a country estate in Kent, and international banking, investment and fiduciary business in the Isle of Man as well as its head office in Belgravia, London.

Edward Chandos Leigh

Leigh started playing cricket as a boy at Stoneleigh Abbey after his father Lord Leigh, Lord Byron's schoolmate at Harrow, established a cricket ground at his country estate at Stoneleigh Abbey in 1839 for his eldest son William Henry Leigh who was attending Harrow.

Florence Kate Upton

The original Golliwogg and Dutch Dolls resided for many years at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country estate in Berkshire.

Francis R. Tillou

Tillou lived at a country estate which he named "Tillietudlem", in a place then known as Pleasant Valley in Hackensack Township, Bergen County, New Jersey.

Frisching Faience Manufactory

The manufactory was founded by Franz Rudolf Frisching and his brothers Gabriel Friedrich (1731–1789) and Karl Albrecht (1734–1801) on the grounds of Franz Rudolf Frisching’s country estate, the Lorraine Gut, outside the Old City of Bern.

Frogner

The borough was originally the ground and property of Frogner Manor, a splendid 18th-century country estate now housing the Oslo City Museum.

George Gough Booth

As their country estate grew both in purpose and in scale, Booth had both noted architect Eliel Saarinen and renowned sculptor Carl Milles in residence for many years at CEC.

George Troup

Troup's country estate, Valdosta, was named after the Valle d'Aosta alpine valley in Italy.

Giuseppina Morlacchi

The couple settled in a country estate in Lowell, Massachusetts with an additional home Leadville, Colorado, although she continued to perform, both with her husband in western dramas, and solo.

Henri Fantin-Latour

In 1875, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Lower Normandy, where he died of lyme disease on 25 August 1904.

Horace Abbott

He lived at his country estate "Abbotston" in northeast Baltimore near the present location of 33rd Street and The Alameda on one of the highest hills in the city near the village of Huntingdon (now Waverly) to the west and the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello community off Harford Road to the east.

James Fitzjames

The Coningham family seem to have lived at several locations in Hertfordshire, settling in the late 1820s at a substantial 30 acre country estate called Rose Hill in Abbots Langley.

Jerome Knapp Junior

The family mostly lived in London, but their country estate was Symeon's Court at Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

At weekends, he travelled north to his country estate, Friars Well Estate, near Melton Mowbray in the county of Leicestershire.

Julia Arthur

At Covington, Kentucky, on February 23, 1898, Julia Arthur (née Ida Lewis) married Benjamin Pierce Cheney, Jr., only son of the wealthy Boston expressman, whose country estate is now the Elm Bank Horticulture Center.

La Moneda Palace

Works on the building started in 1784, with building materials arriving the following year from around Chile and the world: limestone from the Polpaico country estate; sand from the Maipo River; red stones from a quarry at the Cerro San Cristóbal in Santiago; white stone from the neighbouring Cerro Blanco; oak and cypress wood from Valdivia; Spanish metal works from Vizcaya.

LaGrange, Georgia

LaGrange is named after the country estate near Paris of the Marquis de La Fayette, who visited the area in 1825.

Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon

Her older half-brother, the Dauphin, to whom she was close, allowed the couple to meet at his country estate at Meudon away from her husband and the court.

Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin

When her father found out about the affair between the King and her mother, Montespan decided to take his children away to his country estate before raising a scandal at court, challenging the king one day at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and decorated his carriage with antlers (like horns, these were traditional symbols of the cuckolded husband).

Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia

Perhaps it was inherited from the Lenape Indians of the area (if in fact they used a word tioga that was either a cognate to, or a borrowing of, the Iroquois word), or perhaps it began as the name of the country estate of a Euro-American gentleman farmer inspired by the Tioga placenames of Tioga County, Pennsylvania and Tioga County, New York.

Noche Crist

Working with acrylic paints on wooden cut-outs and transparent polyester resin small sculptures, Crist created images reminiscent of her childhood at her family's country estate, Ograda, near Ploesti.

North Bethesda, Maryland

The far southern edge of the North Bethesda CDP was originally the country estate of the Grosvenor family, whose lineage includes Alexander Graham Bell and a former President of the National Geographic Society.

Northwich Woodlands

It was formerly a country estate owned by the Smith-Barry family but it became derelict and Marbury Hall was demolished in 1968.

Pugsey Hurley

Their most publicized crime, one which would eventually result in Hurley's imprisonment, came three days later with the burglary and home invasion of J.P. Emmett's country estate, popularly known as "The Cottage", at Pelham near New Rochelle.

Rafail Levitsky

When Repin settled in Moscow in 1876, he and Levitsky would travel to the Abramtsevo Colony, the country estate of Savva Mamontov located north of Moscow.

Rogate

Until recently Roman Abramovich owned a large country estate at Fyning Hill, near Rogate, which he bought from Australian media magnate Kerry Packer.

Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo

Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo was born on January 10, 1887 in the country estate of Vista Bella, province of Aija, Peru, department of Ancash.

Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet

Sir William is the son of Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet, and Lady Gwendolyn Lithgow, whose family homes were Gleddoch House, at Langbank on the Clyde, a few miles from their shipyards at Port Glasgow, and Ormsary, their country estate in Knapdale.

Steephill

Steephill was the location of a country estate since the time of Hans Stanley, governor of the Isle of Wight, who built there in landscaped surroundings a rustic-style house called The Cottage during his first term of office 1764-1768.

Sylvain Van de Weyer

They had two sons and five daughters, who were brought up in Marylebone and on their country estate at New Lodge in the parish of Winkfield in Berkshire.

Tadeusz Kossak

Tadeusz Kossak (born 1 January 1857 – 1935) was a Polish activist, freedom fighter, and a plenipotent of a country estate in Górki Wielkie from 1922.

The Last Encounter

In 1848, Hornblower, now an Admiral of the Fleet, is enjoying a well-earned retirement on his country estate in Kent when, late one stormy night, a seeming madman claiming to be Napoleon, arrives at his front door and requests his help.

Tom Blofeld

The author of three books for children, A Boggle at Bewilderwood (available also in a poetic version), The Bewilderbats, and A Bewildermuddle, Blofeld also runs his family's country estate, Hoveton, located in the village of the same name, and lives in Hoveton House, the manor house of the estate.

Un début dans la vie

On one such trip from Paris, Comte Hugret de Sérizy, a senator and wealthy aristocrat, is travelling incognito in order to investigate reports that Monsieur Moreau, the steward of his country estate at Presles, is being less than honest in his dealings on the count's behalf with a neighbouring landowner Margueron, a piece of whose land the count wishes to buy.

Utterslev

In the Middle Ages it was a large country estate comprising the villages of Serridslev, Solbjerg, Vanløse, Vigerslev, Valby, Brønshøj and Emdrup.

Virginia State Route 55

The two highways leave Goose Creek and the B-Line west of Delaplane, where SR 55 veers away from I-66 temporarily and joins US 17 (Winchester Road) in a concurrency before the two highways merge onto I-66 near Oak Hill, the country estate of John Marshall.