19 December 2018 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
Reading Time: 15 minutes© GavinJA/cc-by-sa-3.0
Waddesdon Manor is a
country house in the village of
Waddesdon, in
Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the
Aylesbury Vale, 6.6 miles (10.6 km) west of
Aylesbury. The Grade I listed house was built in the
Neo-Renaissance style of a French
château between 1874 and 1889 for
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898) as a weekend residence for grand entertaining and as a setting for his collection. The last member of the
Rothschild family to own Waddesdon was
James de Rothschild (1878–1957). He bequeathed the house and its contents to the
National Trust. It is now managed by the Rothschild Foundation chaired by
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. It is one of the National Trust’s most visited properties, with over 467,000 visitors annually. Waddesdon Manor won
Visit England‘s Large Visitor Attraction of the Year category in 2017.
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5 March 2013 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 8 minutesParson’s Fee © Francs2000
Aylesbury is the county town of
Buckinghamshire and administrative town of the
Aylesbury Vale district in the outskirts of the
London commuter belt. Its urban area includes
Bierton,
Fairford Leys,
Stoke Mandeville and
Watermead and has a population of 69,000 whereas the town, a civil parish and town council had a population of 56,000 in that year.
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