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Wrest Park. / 52.0080; -0.4121. Wrest House c.1708. This building was replaced in the 1830s, but the formal parterre elements of the garden remain from this time. Wrest Park is a country estate located in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal ...
Wrest Park's house and gardens are now part of English Heritage and have been restored and opened to the public from 4 August 2011. Silsoe College. The village was, until 2007, the location of the Silsoe Research Institute, a BBSRC-funded body, in Wrest Park.
The de Grey Mausoleum in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, is one of the largest sepulchral chapels in the country. The mausoleum contains over twenty monuments to the de Grey family who lived in nearby Wrest Park . The cruciform mausoleum has its nave set against the north side of the chancel of the adjacent church of St John the Baptist and its ...
Wrest Park - The Bridgertons' country estate, gardens and orangery. ... Visit Wrest Park. English Heritage looks after over 400 historic buildings and monuments across the country, so if you are ...
Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham, 6th Baron Lucas, KG, PC, FRS (born Robinson, later Weddell; 8 December 1781 – 14 November 1859), styled as The Hon. Thomas Robinson until 1786 and as Lord Grantham from 1786 to 1833, of Wrest Park in the parish of Silsoe, Bedfordshire, was a British Tory statesman.
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The gardens at Wrest Park, originally laid out by the duke, were later extended and remodelled by the couple's granddaughter, Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey. The duchess was buried in the Grey family mausoleum at St John the Baptist Church, Flitton. Following her death, the duke married Sophia Bentinck and had further children.
Houghton House is a ruined house located near Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire, on the ridge just north of Ampthill, and about 8 miles south of Bedford. The house was built for the writer, translator, and literary patron Mary Sidney Herbert, Dowager Countess of Pembroke. Wrest Park House and Gardens. Country House.