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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Rousham House
		Rousham House is a Jacobean style country house in Oxfordshire, England.
		The house has been in the ownership of one family since it was built.
		The hall, the principal room of the house, has survived alteration by successive generations unscathed, and remains as completed in the 17th century.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Rousham_House (707 words)

	ROUSHAM AND WILLIAM KENT
		The Rousham gardener Macclary boasted that four counties and ten parish churches could be seen from one spot in the garden.
		Approaching the gardens from the house, Scheemaker’s copy of the Tivoli statue of the horse attacked by a lion (representing the domination of Rome - the lion - over Tivoli - the horse) draws the visitor across the bowling green, and itself is the point from which to view the distant Eyecatcher and Cuttle Mill.
		At Rousham Kent worked on both house and garden, and because he was allowed a free(ish) rein, each reflects his vision.
	www.manorhousegallery.co.uk /Rousham2.htm (959 words)

	Rousham Park Oxfordshire
		Sir Robert Dormer purchased the manor of Rousham in the mid 1630s and began at once to construct a house in the Jacobean style, using Oxfordshire stone.
		The hall forms the heart of Rousham and has survived the alterations to the house in the 18th and 19th centuries.
		Rousham soon became a popular tourist attraction and Kent had designed a gateway which allowed the public to enter the park from the road without going near the house.
	www.touruk.co.uk /houses/houseoxf_rous.htm (662 words)

	Wake up to Woodstock - Rousham Park House and Gardens
		Rousham and its landscape garden should be a place of pilgrimage for students of the work of William Kent (1685-1748).
		The house, built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer, is still in the ownership of the same family.
		Kent made alterations to the interior of the house, which retains some 17th century panelling and the original staircases, furniture, pictures and bronzes.
	www.wakeuptowoodstock.com /rousham_park_house_and_gardens.html (197 words)

	Steeple Aston Eyecatcher. follies and folly towers at follytowers.com
		Rousham House is approximately 1 mile from the village of Steeple Aston.
		The house was owned by a Sir James Dormer who was a General in the army.
		Kent's arch was built as a mark of triumph to celebrate the victories over the Spaniards by his employer, Sir General Dormer of Rousham House 1 mile away.
	www.follytowers.com /steeple.html (540 words)

	Country house (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In Britain and Ireland, the term country house generally refers to a large house which was built on an agricultural estate as the private residence of the landowner.
		So necessary was the Country house deemed to be, that following the election of the first Labour Government in 1921, Lord Lee of Farham donated his Country house Chequers to the nation for the use of a Prime Minister who might not possess one of his own.
		The decline of the English Country house began during the Agricultural Depression of the 1870s and was dramatically accelerated by World War I.
	country-house.iqnaut.net (2075 words)

	The DiCamillo Companion - Database: History, Gardens, Movies
		The House was built in 1635 for Sir Robert Dormer and is still today (2005) in the ownership of the same family.
		Rousham retains some of its 17th century paneling and the original staircases.
		The gardens at Rousham are considered one of the best examples off the first stage of English landscape design and are today virtually as William Kent designed them in the 18th century -- a rare survival.
	www.dicamillocompanion.com /Houses_hgpm.asp?ID=3455 (267 words)

	Cotswolds History Castles Romans Shakespeare Cathedrals Stately Homes
		The House is the home of the Lucy family, begun in 1551 and situated next to the river Avon in the heart of an ancient deer-park with views to Stratford-upon-Avon a few miles away.
		A romantic Tudor manor house near Tetbury was first built in 1450 standing in it's own valley under the edge of the Cotswolds with Queen Anne terraced yew garden with medieval outbuildings.
		It is a unique experience visiting this house because of the friendliness of the resident Lord and Lady Neidpath, who you may meet, and the intimacy of the closeness of their possessions on your walkabout.
	www.cotswolds.info /castles-romans-shakespeare-blenheim.shtml (3805 words)

	Rousham House 2003
		Rousham House is a superb house which has been in the same family for over 500 years, has a great deal of history and wonderful gardens running down to the River Cherwell.
		Rousham House is a venue in the heart of England with access on relaxed cross country roads.
		Please note the owners of Rousham House indicate in that brochure that no dogs are admitted.
	www.v8register.net /subpages/Rousham2003.htm (300 words)

	ROUSHAM
		If there were time to visit just one place in Oxfordshire I would have no hesitation in nominating the garden at Rousham.
		One of the joys of Rousham is that no children are allowed so its always quiet and usually pretty deserted.
		Rousham has a small band of fanatical admirers.
	www.manorhousegallery.co.uk /Rousham.htm (327 words)

	Gardensearch Directory > Gardens to Visit, Oxfordshire, UK
		Open: As Chastleton House is relatively fragile and the access roads are quiet and narrow, the maximum number of visitors is restricted to 175 a day.
		Seventeenth century house with classic eighteenth century English landscaped gardens with thirty acres of hanging woods, walled gardens and ponds.
		The ancestral home of George Washington, the historic manor house is set in beautiful formal gardens designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
	www.gardensearch.co.uk /gardens/central_oxon.htm (347 words)

	Oxfordshire Attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The house was a Royalist stronghold during the civil war and has a long history
		This fine house is set in wooded deer park in the Chiltern Hills.
		It was a centre for Catholicism throughout the reformation.
	www.plus44.com /local/oxfordshire/rs.html (161 words)

	Rousham House (Oxford) - © Gardens-Guide.com - OPEN GARDENS UK & Ireland - Features, Admission, Maps, History, ...
		Rousham represents the first phase of English landscape design and remains almost as Kent left it.
		Rousham House and its gardens are largely the work of William Kent (1685-1748).
		The house, originally built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer, is still in the ownership of the same family.
	www.gardens-guide.com /gardenpages/_0069.htm (189 words)

	Rousham Oxfordshire England OX6 UK
		Rousham Park House and Garden is in Bicester, Oxfordshire.
		Rousham House The image above is believed to be a replaceable fair use image.
		The house was built in c.1635 for Sir Robert Dormer on an H-plan, but both house...
	www.dotukdirectory.co.uk /d169053.html (184 words)

	Beyond Blenheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Open from April through September, admission to the house and gardens is £5 (about $7) for adults and £3 (about $4) for children under age 12.
		Stanton Harcourt Manor House and Gardens (011-44-1-86-588-1928) is located nine miles west of Oxford on the B4449.
		Rousham House is located 12 miles north of Oxford off the A4260.
	www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2001/february/journeys_houses.php (998 words)

	Crystal Palace luxury display cases. Curio Cabinets for Swarovski Crystal in 24K goldplated
		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'.
		The country house was a central node in the "squirearchy" that ruled Britain until the Reform Act of 1832.
		So necessary was the Swarovski country house deemed to be, that following the election of the first Labour Government in 1921, Lord Lee of Farham donated his country house Chequers to the nation for the use of a Prime Minister who might not possess one of his own.
	www.display-cabinets.uk.com /news10/countryhouse.html (970 words)

	Wikinfo \| English country house
		Burly House, Longleat House, and Hatfield House are perhaps amongst the most well known.
		It is interesting that while the latter two are ducal palaces, Montacute, although built by a Master of the Roles to Queen Elizabeth I, spent the next 400 years in the occupation of his descendents who were Gentry without a London townhouse, rather than aristocracy.
		The movie Gosford Park, the reality series The Edwardian Country House and some episodes of the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs accurately recreated the stratified and repressed but secure atmosphere of the English country house just surviving into the age of the automobile.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=English_country_house (1842 words)

	Oxfordshire Cotswolds
		Rousham, near Steeple Aston - East of Woodstock
		A 17th Century house built by Sir Robert Dormer and still in the ownership of the same family, with a wonderful 20 acre William Kent garden — a rare surviving example with ponds, cascades, stone built features and statues.
		On the skyline is a sham ruin known as the ‘eyecatcher’.
	www.oxfordshirecotswolds.org /attractionsdetail.asp?attractionid=10 (114 words)

	Rousham - Oxford - Banbury - William Kent - garden
		Rousham, half way between Oxford and Banbury, possesses a landscape garden which should be a place of pilgrimage for students of the work of William Kent (1685-1748).
		There are many features which delighted 18th century visitors still in situ, such as the ponds and cascades in Venus' Vale, the Cold Bath, the seven arched Praeneste, Townesend's Building, the Temple of the Mill and, on the skyline, the sham ruin known as the 'Eyecatcher'.
		Visitors should not miss the walled garden with its herbaceous borders and small parterre, the pigeon house and espalier apple trees.
	www.homefarmhouse.co.uk /rousham.html (159 words)

	Rousham Park House and Garden - Rousham near Bicester, oxfordshire
		Rousham Park House and Garden - Rousham near Bicester, oxfordshire
		The house was built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer.
		Rousham represents the first phase of English landscape design
	www.bicester.com /rousham.htm (45 words)

	The Arts & Crafts Home
		The architectural historian Mark Girouard argues in Life in the English Country House, that country houses were essentially "power houses" built to enhance the ability of the owners to influence local and national politics.
		Country houses and stately homes are sometimes confused-while a country house is always in the country, a stately home can also be in a town.
		The whole is a glorious mismatch of styles and fashions which seamlessly blend together-this could be called the true English country house.
	www.achome.co.uk /antiques/country_house.htm (3459 words)

	Rousham House and Garden - a Gardens Guide review
		: Rousham garden is 12 miles north of Oxford, 7 miles west of Bicester, 2 miles south of Steeple Aston off the A4260.
		: Rousham is the purest example of an Augustan landscape garden, designed by William Kent on a framework made by Charles Bridgeman in the 1720s.
		One’s first Roman encounter is with statues recalling the Imperial games: a lion mauls a horse and a gladiator dies with restrained agony.
	www.gardenvisit.com /g/rousham.htm (208 words)

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		Access to the house is by a timed ticket and entry costs £7.00.
		Newark Park was building began in the 16th century and continued into the 18th century when the architect James Wyatt remodelled the house.
		The house was built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer and is still in the hands of the same family.
	members.lycos.co.uk /cotswoldgateway/houses.htm (485 words)

	The Augustan landscape gardens of William Kent
		The best surviving examples of their work are at Claremont, Chiswick House, Rousham and Stowe.
		At Chiswick House the statues in the exedra are said to have come from Hadrian's Villa and to represent Caesar, Pompey and Cicero.
		At Rousham, Kent designed the Venus's Vale and an arcade which was named the Praeneste after the Roman resort where an oracle resided.
	www.gardenvisit.com /t/c3s2.html (1053 words)

	Press Release: Visits to Rousham House and Broughton Castle
		Despite an unpredictable weather forecast, the spirit amongst the party of 35 day trippers was very lively and jolly as they made their way to Rousham House, near Steeple Aston to the first garden.
		The house was built in 1635 and the beautiful gardens created by William Kent in 1735.
		Built originally as a moated house in the 14th century, the castle has been home to the Fiennes family since 1377.
	www.cprehampshire.org.uk /press/pr_079.html (380 words)

	Cotswold Guide to Gardens open for Visitors and Tourists
		Rodmarton Manor and Barnsley House gardens are both fine examples of traditional English country gardens while Westbury Court garden is the earliest formal Dutch water garden remaining in the country.
		The original gardens around the house are planted in colour themes separated by yew hedges.
		The house and gardens are a jewel surrounded by beautiful landscaped parkland and villages.
	www.cotswolds.info /gardens/gardens.shtml (1561 words)

	NADFAS at Grayshott - Events
		During May 2006, we went to Windsor for a special open day at Frogmore House with a guided tour of the gardens, and an escorted tour of The Chapel Royal followed by sung Evensong.
		In June, we visited Compton Verney House near Stratford on Avon, a fine Robert Adam house with several art galleries and 120 acres of grounds landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown.
		In June we have private visits to Rousham House and Gardens and Kingston Bagpuize House and in September we will be touring The Royal Albert Hall and having a guided visit to The Jameel Gallery at the V and A Museum.
	www.nadfasatgrayshott.org.uk /events.html (472 words)

	Westview House, Burford, Oxfordshire, Cotswolds, England. Bed and Breakfast. Links to places of interest
		Some of these include the Church of St. John the Baptist, the Tolsey Museum, the Priory, Falkland Hall and the Warwick Alms Houses.
		Rousham Park House and Garden Rousham House was built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer and is still in the ownership of the same family.
		Stanway House An outstanding example of an English Jacobean manor house built between 1580 and 1640.
	www.westview-house.co.uk /links.htm (516 words)

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