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  Ascott, Buckinghamshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ascott is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Wing, Buckinghamshire, England.
In 1415 however, the same year as the Battle of Agincourt, the convent was seized by the English church because it belonged to the French and awarded to the Convent of St Mary du Pre, near St Albans.
In 1878 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house.
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 Encyclopedia: Wing, Buckinghamshire
Map sources for Aylesbury at grid reference SP818138 Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, in south central England, with a population in the 2001 census of 65,173.
Prior to the Norman conquest there was an abbey in the village at Ascott, that had been given by a royal to a Benedictine convent in Angiers.
Ascott House a home of the Rothschild family is situated in the parish.
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 Buckinghamshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Buckinghamshire''' (abbreviated '''''Bucks'') is a county in south central England.
Buckinghamshire still has good rail links to London, Birmingham and Manchester/ and furniture is still a major industry in parts of south Bucks.
Today Buckinghamshire is considered by many to be the idyllic rural landscape of Edwardian fiction and is known colloquially as ''leafy Bucks''.
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 Ascott Buckinghamshire
Ascott was created by Leopold de Rothschild, great-grandson of the Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the founder of the family's fortunes.
Ascott is set in 30 acres of gardens overlooking the Vale of Aylesbury with views to the Chilterns.
The large number of evergreen shrubs and trees were planted because Leopold originally intended to use Ascott mainly in the winter as a hunting lodge.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshirebŭk´Ĭng-emshĬr, Buckingham, or Bucks, county (1991 pop.
In S Buckinghamshire are the chalky Chiltern Hills with their beech forests; furniture made from beechwood...
He studied and lectured at Oxford and preached at Drayton-Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire; at the Temple Church, London; at Boscombe, Wiltshire; and at Bishopsbourne, Kent.
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 Pink bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Asheridge is a small hamlet in the parish of Chesham, in Buckinghamshire, England.
Askett is a hamlet in the parish of Monks Risborough, in Buckinghamshire, England.
Aston Abbotts (or Aston Abbots) is a village in Buckinghamshire, England.
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 Ascott, Buckinghamshire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The former abbey, now a house, itself once featured additions that were attributed to (One of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)) Inigo Jones.
In the late (Click link for more info and facts about 19th century) 19th century members of the (Any of family of powerful Jewish bankers in Europe) Rothschild banking family began to acquire estates in the area, including Ascott.
In 1878 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect (Click link for more info and facts about George Devey) George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house.
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 Ascott House. A National Trust Garden and Property
In 1873 Ascott, together with 90 acres of land, was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild whose seat was at Mentmore, three miles away.
The nucleus of the remarkable collection of works of art at Ascott, more particularly the French furniture and most of the pictures, was inherited in the late 19th century by Leopold de Rothschild from his father, Baron Lionel de Rothschild.
In 1949 the Ascott Collection, together with the House, its grounds of 261 acres and an endowment were given to the National Trust by Anthony de Rothschild.
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 My Family
She was married to William GURNEY on 26 Dec 1796 in Pitstone, Buckinghamshire.
She was married to William COLLYER on 17 May 1864 in Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire..
She was married to Joseph BRANDON on 22 Jun 1844 in Wing, Buckinghamshire.
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 Buckinghamshire Genealogy
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies (Buckinghamshire Record Office and Local Studies service) are the major repositories for source material of interest to family historians in Buckinghamshire.
These pages include details of the registers either at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, or available as a transcript for purchase, or available for loan as part of a society library (society membership is usually required for the latter).
Local Newpapers for Buckinghamshire on the Buckinghamshire Record and Local Studies website, lists both alphabetically, and by area, local newspapers, with details of dates and of locations of holdings in Buckinghamshire and surrounding counties.
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 Walton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Walton is a (A community of people smaller than a village) hamlet in the (A local church community) parish of (Click link for more info and facts about Aylesbury) Aylesbury, in (Click link for more info and facts about Buckinghamshire) Buckinghamshire, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
Although Aylesbury has grown to such an extent that it completely surrounds Walton by a couple of miles in each direction, the hamlet is still marked on modern maps and will remain a hamlet as long as the Holy Trinity Chapel on Walton Street in Aylesbury remains open for services.
The hamlet is also the location of Aylesbury's (The force of policemen and officers) Police Station and (Click link for more info and facts about Aylesbury Grammar School) Aylesbury Grammar School, as well as the aforementioned High School.
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 Ascott House
Ascott was little more than a half-timbered farmhouse built in the Jacobean period when it was purchased by the de Rothschild family in 1876.
Over the next 75 years the house was enlarged and remodelled as a showcase for the family collections of Oriental porcelain, paintings, and fine furniture.
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 Osyth
Born in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire (at that time part of Mercia), she was the daughter of Frithwald, a sub-king of Mercia in Surrey, and was the niece of St. Edith and Saint Edburga of Bicester.
Raised in a convent (at Aylesbury or at nearby Ascott) under the direction of her better-documented aunts, her ambition was to become an abbess, but she was too important as a dynastic pawn to be set aside: forced by her father into a dynastic marriage with King Sighere of Essex.
She did her dynastic duty and produced him a son, then, eventually, perhaps after Sighere's death, she established a convent at place called Chich, in Essex, where she ruled as first abbess.
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 Ascott Hotels. Hotels near Ascott - Accommodation UK
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Take a Picture tour of Ascott, and please come back after your visit to submit your own.
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 Science Fair Projects - Winslow Hall
Jones is also supposed to have designed another local mansion (now destroyed) at Ascott, Buckinghamshire
William Lowndes (the owner) and Wren knew each other, they served on a committee together in 1704.
Thus it is even more remarkable that it has survived largely unaltered, escaped conversion to institutional or office use, and remains today in 2004 a much loved private house.
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 Wingrave - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Why she built a large house barely two miles from her own home Mentmore Towers (one of the largest mansions in Buckinghamshire) can only be the subject of conjecture.
The design of the house while similar to Ascott, does not have the same lightness of touch as Ascott, so is unlikely to have been designed by Ascott's architect George Devey.
The Rothschild family do not appear to have ever lived at Wingrave, as the house was soon let to the Stewart-Freeman Family who enlarged it in 1885 and eventually purchased it in 1898.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Wingrave   (392 words)

  
 Country House - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Other country houses such as Ascott in Buckinghamshire were deliberatly designed not to be stately, and to harmonise with the landscape, while some of the great houses such as Kedleston Hall and Holkham were built as "power houses" to impress and dominate the landscape, and were certainly intended to be 'stately homes'.
Grouse shooting in Scotland, pheasant shooting and fox hunting in England.
The Earl of Rosebery, for instance had Dalmeny in Scotland, Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire and another near Epsom just for the racing season.
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 Devon Under 17s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The satisfaction level of being involved with this year’s under 17s was high as, although they would never pretend to be the most talented group, they were one of the hardest working and pleasant squads that Devon has produced.
The season started with a week’s tour to Buckinghamshire and Sussex, playing the first match at the majestic Ascott Park ground on the Rothschild Estate, an attractive traditional Country House ground.
Buckinghamshire then progressed to 50 after twenty-nine overs when the Devon captain, Nick Watkin, had Smith caught behind by Marc Bettiss.
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 Ascott Ascott House, A National Trust Garden And Property Set In The Heart Of Rural Bedfordshire In 187   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ascott House, A National Trust Garden and Property set in the heart of Rural Bedfordshire In 1873 Ascott, together with 90 acres of land, was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild whose seat following year Leopold de Rothschild took over Ascott as a hunting box.
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2003, under the direction of Professor Roy Ascott, the Collegium is a world-wide transdisciplinary Interactive Arts established by Professor Ascott in 1994, at University of Wales.
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 Czechoslovaks in Aston Abbotts and Wingrave, near Aylesbury, Bucks, England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In late 1940 the President and his Cabinet moved near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire due to the blitz.
Jan Masaryk was a good freind of the Rothschilds and sometimes spent weekends with the Rothschilds at Ascott House.(BL) In 1940 as the blitz was making it dangerous to live in London, Lockhart asked Anthony Rothschild to help find somewhere safe for Edvard Benes and Jan Masaryk to live.
From 1941 to 1947 Ascott House was used by Chelsea Pensioners after Chelsea Royal Hospital was bombed.
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 Ascott Metropolis Auckland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A metropolis (in Greek metera = mother and polis = city/town) is a major city, which is an economical and cultural center forsome country, and usually a hub for its international connections.
The word comes from the Greek metropolis ("mothercity") (pl. metropoleis) which is how the Greek colonies of antiquity referred to their...
However, Kororareka's geographical position made it very remote, inaccessible andoff-centre from the rest of the New Zealand archipelago, and the to...
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 Hotels Ascott
The hotels are listed in order of proximity to Ascott.
Please note that all distances are approximate and as the crow flies.
The Square, Aspley Guise, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK17 8DW
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 Cliveden House and Garden, Buckinghamshire
A guide to Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire, England, highlighting history and
One of the great country houses of Buckinghamshire, and indeed, of all England.
Cliveden stands on a high cliff above the River Thames, and the gardens provide wonderful views down the river.
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 Ascott Hotels. Hotels near Ascott - Accommodation UK
Hotels near Ascott - Accommodation UK Ascott Hotels.
Situated on the M1, the Welcome Lodge Newport Pagnell offers easy access to visit the Buckinghamshire countryside.
Spacious en-suite rooms, free satellite TV in every room, tea and coffee making facilities, free newspaper, free parking, all the facilities of a Welcome Break Service Area plus a selection of famous catering outlets on site, make Welcome Lodge terrific value.
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 Buckinghamshire
Boarstall Tower, in the same village, is the 14th century moated stone gatehouse of a now-vanished fortified house.
Aylesbury, not Buckingham, has been the county town of Buckinghamshire since 1725, and the county museum occupies two buildings on Church Street: a grammar school of 1720 and the 18th century house next door.
Inside, displays cover the history, archaeology, geology and wildlife of the county.
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 Hotels in der Nähe des Ascott
A National Trust property since 1949, Ascott holds an exceptional collection of paintings, Chinese porcelain and English and French furniture.
The 30-acre garden is a fine example of Victorian gardening and the grounds are stunning at any time of year....
The Rose and Crown is close to Princes Risborough and just a few miles from High Wycombe.
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 Theatre in Aylesbury SASKATCHEWAN Canada - Pagelite Search The Canadian Web Directory
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 Ascott (Buckinghamshire) -- © Gardens-Guide.com - Garden visit times and information, Prices, Maps, History, ...
Ascott (Buckinghamshire) -- © Gardens-Guide.com - Garden visit times and information, Prices, Maps, History, Design, Features, Local Amenities, Virtual Tours
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