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family. Arundel had previously administered the estates of Shaftesbury Abbey, and as a commissioner of Thomas Cromwell in the south west, acquired much of the property of the abbey in Dorset and Wiltshire. However, he fell out of favour in the reign of Edward VI and was beheaded in 1552, forfeiting all his possessions to the crown.
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surrendered in 1539, the manor of Encombe was granted to John Zouche in May 1540, who is presumed to have been a kinsman of Elizabeth Zouche, the last Abbess of Shaftesbury who signed the deed of surrender. He immediately passed on the property to Sir Thomas Arundel, who was related to the Zouche
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officer, James Gaggero, who paid £20M for the 2,000-acre estate in 2009, the Gaggeros becoming only the sixth family to own the house in 1100 years. He made his fortune by operating the former
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in 1645. The last member of the Culliford family to own the property, William Culliford, who had run into debt, sold the house to George Pitt of
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Later in 1552, the estate was acquired by Robert Culliford and it remained in the Culliford family until 1734. The family only prevented
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at www.bournemouthecho.co.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2014
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built in 1735 on the Encombe Estate near the village of
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This article about a Dorset building or structure is a
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at www.kingstonopc.org.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2014
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Grade II* listed
country house
Kingston
Dorset
Jurassic Coast
England
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
Abbess of Shaftesbury
King Eadred
Shaftesbury Abbey
Middle Ages
Henry VIII
Shaftesbury Abbey
Oliver Cromwell
slight
Corfe Castle
Stratfield Saye
Hampshire
William Pitt the Elder
Earl of Chatham
Earls of Eldon
Irish Guards
Gibraltar Airways
GB Airways
easyJet
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