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Langley Park, Buckinghamshire

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19: 169:(1818) notes that "This Mansion is a handsome stone edifice; it is large and square, having a pediment on its principal front. The apartments it contains are well arranged and of considerable dimensions ... a piece of water runs along the South Front of the House, at the foot of a sloping lawn, on which are scattered some beautiful clumps of trees, and other woodland scenery; 88:
A house with stables and outbuildings was built to replace the hunting lodge some time after 1603, when Sir John Kederminster (or Kedermister) was appointed Chief Steward of the Manor of Langley Park. In 1626 he was granted the manor and park, and the land was no longer in crown ownership.
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The formal gardens on the north, west and south sides of the house were created between 1882 and 1899. They include gravelled paths, lawns and a rock garden, and in some areas are separated from the less formal parkland by a
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in the 1760s, has woods, a lake formed by damming a stream, pastures and trees in clumps and individually planted. At the site of a Palladian octagonal temple by
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to build a grander house on the site, also to be used as a hunting lodge. This was situated about 100m south of the Kederminster house, and was finished in 1760.
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In 1788 the estate was bought by Robert Bateson Harvey. The estate remained in the ownership of the Harvey family until 1945 when it was sold to
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Langley Park House is Grade II* listed. The original house as designed and built by Leadbetter was a compact, villa-like house, with
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remained with Buckinghamshire County Council) in 2004 for £2.4 million; in 2018 it reopened as a hotel run by the Marriott Group.
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During the First World War Langley Park House was used as a hospital officers of the 2nd Regiment of
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The present-day house is the most recent to be built on the site of a medieval
61:, and gardens are Grade II listed together. The house and grounds are owned by 58: 300:"LANGLEY PARK INCLUDING QUADRANT WALLS, CORNER TOWERS, PAVILIONS AND ORANGERY" 516: 498: 485: 180: 131:
During the Second World War the house was used as the SE Regional HQ of the
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until 1944, and then as headquarters of the Polish units involved in the
81:. It was used for hunting deer throughout the medieval period, with a 179:(1825-1887), grandson of the first Harvey to own the house, added 156: 196:. Together the gardens and the parkland are Grade II listed. 193: 49:, and is open to visitors. The house, designed and built by 325:"The Langley, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Buckinghamshire" 173:, and the heights of the forest, form its distant view." 159:
Woodstock stone, quarried from the Duke's estate there.
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Grade II listed parks and gardens in Buckinghamshire
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Stiff Leadbetter
John Preston Neale
Buckinghamshire
Stiff Leadbetter
Grade II* listed building
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
Buckinghamshire Council
deer park
crown property
hunting lodge
Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
Stiff Leadbetter
George, the fourth Duke
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
Blenheim Palace
Buckinghamshire County Council
King Edward's Horse
Home Guard
D-Day landings
leasehold
freehold
ashlar
John Preston Neale
Windsor Castle
Robert Bateson Harvey
Vanbrugh
ha-ha
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
Roger Morris

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