List of family seats of English nobility
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
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Seats of current members of the British Royal Family[]
Primary title | Principal Seat |
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The Queen | Buckingham Palace, London; Windsor Castle, Berkshire |
Prince of Wales | Clarence House, London |
Duke of Cambridge | Kensington Palace, London |
Duke of York | Royal Lodge, Berkshire |
Earl of Wessex | Bagshot Park, Surrey |
The Princess Royal | Gatcombe Park, Gloucestershire |
Duke of Gloucester | Kensington Palace, London |
Duke of Kent | Kensington Palace, London |
Prince Michael of Kent | Kensington Palace, London |
Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy | Thatched House Lodge, London |
Family seats of English peers[]
Dukes (other than Royal Dukes)[]
Primary title | Family seat | Former seats |
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Duke of Norfolk | Arundel Castle, Sussex and Carlton Towers, Yorkshire | Framlingham Castle, Bungay Castle, Clun Castle, Norfolk House, Worksop Manor |
Duke of Somerset | Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire and Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon | Bulstrode Park |
Duke of Richmond | Goodwood House, Sussex | Gordon Castle |
Duke of Grafton | Euston Hall, Suffolk | |
Duke of St Albans | Bestwood Lodge | |
Duke of Beaufort | Badminton House, Gloucestershire | Raglan Castle |
Duke of Bedford | Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire | |
Duke of Devonshire | Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle, County Waterford | Londesborough Hall, Hardwick Hall, Chiswick House, Devonshire House, Burlington House |
Duke of Marlborough | Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire | |
Duke of Rutland | Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire | |
Duke of Manchester | Kimbolton Castle, Tandragee Castle | |
Duke of Northumberland | Alnwick Castle, Northumberland and Syon House, London | Warkworth Castle, Prudhoe Castle, Kielder Castle, Northumberland House, Stanwick Park, Albury Park |
Duke of Wellington | Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire and Apsley House, London | |
Duke of Westminster | Eaton Hall, Cheshire and Abbeystead House, Lancashire | Grosvenor House |
Marquesses[]
Primary title | Family seat | Former seats |
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Marquess of Winchester | Basing House | |
Marquess of Lansdowne | Bowood House, Wiltshire | Lansdowne House |
Marquess Townshend | Raynham Hall, Norfolk | |
Marquess of Salisbury | Hatfield House, Hertfordshire and Cranborne Manor, Dorset | |
Marquess of Bath | Longleat House, Wiltshire | |
Marquess of Hertford | Ragley Hall, Warwickshire | |
Marquess of Exeter | Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire | |
Marquess of Northampton | Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire and Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire | |
Marquess of Rockingham | Rockingham Castle, Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire | |
Marquess Camden | Wherwell House, Hampshire | Bayham Abbey Estate, near Lamberhurst |
Marquess of Cholmondeley | Houghton Hall, Norfolk and Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire | |
Marquess of Ailesbury | Tottenham House | |
Marquess of Bristol | Ickworth House | |
Marquess of Normanby | Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire | |
Marquess of Abergavenny | Eridge Park, Sussex | |
Marquess of Zetland | Aske Hall, Yorkshire | |
Marquess of Reading | Jaynes Court, near Bisley, Gloucestershire |
Earls[]
Primary title | Family seat | Former seats |
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Earl of Aylesford | Packington Hall, Warwickshire | |
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley | Manor Farm House, Oxfordshire | Astley Hall |
Earl of Balfour | Burpham Lodge, Sussex | Whittingehame House |
Earl Bathurst | Cirencester House, Gloucestershire | Paulspury, Northamptonshire |
Earl of Bradford | Weston Park, Shropshire | Castle Bromwich Hall |
Earl of Buckinghamshire | Hampden House | |
Earl Cadogan | Culford Park | |
Earl Cairns | Bolehyde Manor, Wiltshire | |
Earl of Carlisle | Naworth Castle, Cumberland and Castle Howard, Yorkshire | |
Earl of Carnarvon | Highclere Castle, Hampshire | |
Earl Cathcart | Gateley Hall, Norfolk | |
Earl of Chichester | Little Durnford Manor, Wiltshire | Stanmer House |
Earl of Clarendon | Holywell House, Hampshire | The Grove |
Earl of Cottenham | Priory Manor, Wiltshire | |
Earl of Coventry | Croome Court | |
Earl of Cranbrook | Great Glemham House, Suffolk | |
Earl of Craven | Hawkwood House, Sussex | Hamstead Marshall Park, Ashdown Park, Coombe Abbey |
Earl of Cromer | Drayton Court, Somerset | |
Earl of Dartmouth | Woodsome Hall, West Yorkshire | Sandwell Hall, Patshull Hall |
Earl De La Warr | Buckhurst Park, Sussex | Bourn Hall |
Earl of Denbigh | Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire | | |
Earl of Derby | Knowsley Hall, Merseyside | Greenhalgh Castle |
Earl of Devon | Powderham Castle, Devon | Tiverton Castle, Colcombe Castle |
Earl of Ducie | Talbots End Farm, near Cromhall, Gloucestershire | Tortworth Court, Spring Park |
Earl of Dudley | Dudley House, Witley Court, Himley Hall, Dudley Castle | |
Earl of Durham | Lambton Castle, Durham | Fenton, near Wooler, Northumberland |
Earl of Effingham | Readings Farmhouse, Essex | |
Earl of Essex | Cassiobury House | |
Earl Ferrers | Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk | |
Earl Fortescue | Ebrington Manor, Gloucestershire | Castle Hill |
Earl of Gainsborough | Exton Hall, Rutland | |
Earl Grey | Howick Hall, Fallodon Hall | |
Earl of Guilford | Waldershare House, Kent | |
Earl of Halifax | Garrowby Hall, Yorkshire | |
Earl of Harewood | Harewood House, Yorkshire | Goldsborough Hall |
Earl of Harrington | Elvaston Castle, Harrington House, Gawsworth Hall | |
Earl of Harrowby | Sandon Hall, Staffordshire | |
Earl Howe | Penn House, Buckinghamshire | |
Earl of Iddesleigh | Hayne House, Devon and Shillands House, Devon | |
Earl of Ilchester | Farley Mill, Kent | Melbury House |
Earl of Iveagh | Elveden Hall, Suffolk | Iveagh House |
Earl Jellicoe | Tidcombe Manor, Wiltshire | |
Earl of Jersey | Radier Manor, Jersey | Middleton Park, Osterley Park |
Earl of Kimberley | Hailstone House, Wiltshire | |
Earl of Leicester | Holkham Hall, Norfolk | |
Earl of Lichfield | Shugborough House, Staffordshire | |
Earl of Lincoln | Clumber House, Boyton Manor | |
Earl of Lonsdale | Thrimby, Westmorland | Lowther Castle, Askham Hall |
Earl of Lytton | Newbuildings Place, Sussex | Knebworth House |
Earl of Macclesfield | Shirburn Castle | |
Earl of Malmesbury | Greywell Hill House, Hampshire | Heron Court |
Earl of Morley | Pound House, Devon | Saltram House |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire and Newhouse Manor, near Ashford, Kent | Classiebawn Castle |
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe | Empacombe House, Cornwall | Mount Edgcumbe House |
Earl of Onslow | Clandon Park | |
Earl of Oxford (Title Dormant) | Castle Hedingham, Essex | |
Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | Brampton Bryan Hall, Eywood House | |
Earl of Oxford and Asquith | Mells Manor, Somerset | |
Earl Peel | Elmire House, Yorkshire | |
Earl of Pembroke | Wilton House, Wiltshire | Pembroke Castle |
Earl of Plymouth | Oakly Park, Shropshire | Hewell Grange |
Earl of Portland | Welbeck Abbey | |
Earl of Portsmouth | Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire | |
Earl of Radnor | Longford Castle, Wiltshire and Alward House, Wiltshire | |
Earl of Romney | Gayton Hall, Norfolk | Mote Park |
Earl of Sandwich | Mapperton House, Dorset | Hinchingbrooke House |
Earl of Scarbrough | Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire and Lumley Castle, County Durham | Tickhill Castle |
Earl of Selborne | Temple Manor, Hampshire | |
Earl of Shaftesbury | Ashley House, Dorset | |
Earl of Shrewsbury | Wanfield Hall, Staffordshire | Alton Castle, Alton Towers, Barlow Woodseats Hall, Grafton Manor, Heythrop Park, Ingestre Hall |
Earl Spencer | Althorp House, Northamptonshire and Spencer House, London | |
Earl St Aldwyn | Wilderstrip House, Gloucestershire | |
Earl of St Germans | Port Eliot, Cornwall | |
Earl of Stradbroke | Henham Park, Suffolk | |
Earl of Strafford | Apple Tree Cottage, Hampshire | Wrotham Park |
Earl of Suffolk | Charlton Park, Wiltshire | |
Earl of Swinton | Dykes Hill House, Yorkshire | |
Earl of Tankerville | Chillingham Castle | |
Earl of Verulam | Gorhambury House, Hertfordshire | |
Earl Waldegrave | Chewton House, Somerset | Hever Castle |
Earl of Warwick | Warwick Castle | |
Earl of Westmorland | Raby Castle, Apethorpe Palace, Mereworth Castle | |
Earl of Wharncliffe | Wortley Hall | |
Earl of Winchelsea | Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire | Eastwell Park |
Earl of Yarborough | Brocklesby House, Lincolnshire |
Viscounts[]
Primary title | Family seat | Former seats |
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Viscount Addison | Churn Barn, Huntingdonshire | |
Viscount Allenby | Newnham Lodge, Hampshire | |
Viscount Allendale | Bywell Hall, Northumberland and Stocksfield Hall, Northumberland | Bretton Hall |
Viscount Astor | Ginge Manor, Oxfordshire | |
Viscount Bearsted | Farley Hall, Hampshire | |
Viscount Bledisloe | Lydney Park, Gloucestershire | |
Viscount Bolingbroke | Lydiard House and Bolingbroke House | |
Viscount Boyd of Merton | Ince Castle, Cornwall | |
Viscount Brentford | Cousley Place, Sussex | |
Viscount Bridgeman | Watley House, Hampshire | |
Viscount Buckmaster | Ryece Hall, Suffolk | |
Viscount Chilston | The Old Rectory, Hampshire | |
Viscount Cobham | Hagley Hall, Worcestershire | |
Viscount Combermere | Combermere Abbey | |
Viscount Cowdray | Cowdray House | |
Viscount Daventry | Arbury Hall, Warwickshire | |
Viscount De L'Isle | Penshurst Place, Kent | |
Viscount Devonport | Ray Demesne, Northumberland | |
Viscount Dilhorne | The Dower House, Dorset | |
Viscount Eccles | Moulton Hall, Yorkshire | |
Viscount Esher | Beauforest House, Oxfordshire | |
Viscount Exmouth | Canonteign House | |
Viscount Falmouth | Tregothnan, Cornwall | |
Viscount Goschen | Hilton House, Berkshire | |
Viscount Hailsham | Kettlethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire | |
Viscount Hampden | Glynde Place, Sussex | |
Viscount Hanworth | Hanworth Park | |
Viscount Hardinge | Broadmere House, Hampshire | |
Viscount Head | Throope Manor, Wiltshire | |
Viscount Hereford | Hampton Court, Herefordshire and Castle Bromwich Hall | |
Viscount Hill | Hawkstone Hall | |
Viscount Hood | Loders Court, Dorset | |
Viscount Kemsley | Church Hill Farm, Hampshire | |
Viscount Knollys | Bramerton Hall, Norfolk | |
Viscount Knutsford | Munden House, Hertfordshire | |
Viscount Long | Owles Hall, Hertfordshire | |
Viscount Marchwood | The Filberts | |
Viscount Melville | Wey House, Somerset | |
Viscount Mersey | Bignor Park, Sussex | |
Viscount Portman | Bryanston House | |
Viscount Ridley | Blagdon Hall, Northumberland | |
Viscount Rothermere | Ferne House, Wiltshire | |
Viscount Sidmouth | Highway Manor, Wiltshire | Upottery Manor |
Viscount Scarsdale | Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire | |
Viscount Stansgate | Stansgate House, Essex | |
Viscount Trenchard | Standon Lordship, Hertfordshire | |
Viscount Torrington | Great Hunts Place, Hampshire | |
Viscount Wimborne | Craiganour Lodge, Perthshire | Canford Manor, Ashby St Ledgers Manor House, and Wimbourne House |
Barons[]
Primary title | Family seat | Former seats | |
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Baron Bagot | Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire | ||
Baron Barnard | Raby Castle, Durham | ||
Baron Benyon | Englefield House, Berkshire | ||
Baron Bolton | Bolton Hall, Yorkshire | ||
Baron Braybrooke | Audley End, Essex | ||
Baroness Braye | Stanford Hall, Leicestershire | ||
Baron Camoys | Stonor Park, Oxfordshire | ||
Baron Carrington | Wycombe Abbey | ||
Baron Cavendish of Furness | Holker Hall, Cumbria | ||
Baron Clifford of Chudleigh | Ugbrooke Park, Devon | ||
Baron Digby | Minterne House, Dorset | ||
Baron Dudley | Dudley Castle and Himley Hall | ||
Baron Egremont | Petworth House, East Sussex | ||
Baron Feversham | Duncombe Park, Yorkshire | ||
Baron FitzWalter | Goodnestone Park, Kent | ||
Baron Harris | Belmont House, Kent | ||
Baron Hastings | Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland | ||
Baron Hillingdon | Lound Hall, Bothamsall | ||
Baron Howard of Rising | Castle Rising | ||
Baron Hylton | Ammerdown House, Kilmersdon, Somerset | ||
Baron Jermyn | Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk | ||
Baron Leigh | Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire | ||
Baron Macdonald | Armadale Castle, Skye | Finlaggan Castle, Loch Finlaggan | |
Baron Methuen | Corsham Court, Wiltshire | ||
Baron Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton | Allerton Castle, Yorkshire | Stourhead and Roundhay Park | |
Baron Petre | Ingatestone Hall, Essex and Writtle Park, Essex | ||
Baron Ravensworth | Eslington Park, Northumberland | ||
Baron Rayleigh | Terling Place, Essex | ||
Baron Rennell | The Rodd, Herefordshire | ||
Baron Sandys | Ombersley Court, Worcestershire | ||
Baron de Saumarez | Saumarez Manor, Guernsey | ||
Baron Saye and Sele | Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire | ||
Baron Stafford | Swynnerton Hall, Staffordshire | ||
Baron Teynham | Pylewell Park, Hampshire | ||
Baroness Willoughby de Eresby | Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire |
Family seats of English baronets and gentry[]
Family name or title | Family seat |
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Arden family | Park Hall, Castle Bromwich, West Midlands |
Babington family | Packington Hall, Staffordshire; Rothley Court, Leicestershire; Dethick Manor, Derbyshire |
Barrett-Lennard baronets | Belhus, Essex |
Biddulph baronets | Elmhurst Hall, Staffordshire |
Bidlake family | Great Bidlake Manor, Devon |
Blackett baronets | Matfen Hall, Northumberland |
Blois family | Cockfield Hall, Suffolk |
Bowles family | Forty Hall, London (formerly) |
Bulmer family | Wilton Castle, Redcar and Cleveland |
Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy baronets | Charlecote Park, Warwickshire |
Clitherow family | Boston Manor, London (formerly) |
Coates family | Coates Manor, West Sussex |
Corbet family | Moreton Corbet Castle, Shropshire |
Davers baronets | Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk |
Dering baronets | Surrenden Dering, Kent |
Dormer family | Rousham House, Oxfordshire |
Fettiplace family | Compton Beauchamp House, Oxfordshire |
FitzHerbert family | Tissington Hall, Derbyshire |
Fulford family | Great Fulford Manor, Devon |
Gage baronets | Hengrave Hall, Suffolk |
Gascoigne baronets | Lotherton Hall, West Yorkshire |
Gough family | Perry Hall, Birmingham |
Gosling family | Hassobury, Essex |
Greene baronets | Nether Hall, Suffolk |
Gresley baronets | Drakelowe Hall, Derbyshire |
Grindlay family | Bordeshale Manor, Warwickshire |
Hervey-Bathurst family | Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire |
Ingleby baronets | Ripley Castle, Yorkshire |
Kingsbury family | Kingsbury Hall, Warwickshire |
Lemon baronets | Carclew House, Cornwall |
Lupton family | Potternewton Hall, West Yorkshire |
Mander family | The Mount, Tettenhall Wood, West Midlands |
Manningham-Buller baronets | Dilhorne Hall, Staffordshire |
Money-Kyrle family of Whetham | Whetham House, Calne, Wiltshire |
Mills-Everist family | Lound Hall, Nottinghamshire |
Ogle family | Kirkley Hall, Northumberland |
Palmes family | Naburn Hall, City of York |
Pennington family | Muncaster Castle, Cumbria |
Perkins family of Ufton | Ufton Court, Berkshire |
Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Charborough | Charborough House, Charborough Park, Dorset |
Pye Family | Leckhampstead House, Berkshire |
Roper-Curzon Family | Hyde, Charlton, Bradford, Pylewell Park, Candelwick, Galway Estates, Trimdon Estates, Saint Dunstans, Chestfeild, Cheselherst, Brambiltighe, Modingham, Kent Estates, Kedleston Hall[1][2][3][4][5] |
Rose baronets | Hardwick House, Oxfordshire |
Selby family | Biddlestone Hall, Northumberland |
Shelton family | Shelton Hall, Norfolk |
Sitwell baronets | Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire and Weston Hall, Northamptonshire (both former) |
Smalbroke family | Blakesley Hall, Birmingham |
Spencer-Stanhope family | Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire |
Spring family | Pakenham Hall, Suffolk |
Standish baronets | Duxbury Hall, Lancashire |
Strachey baronets | Sutton Court, Somerset |
Strickland baronets | Boynton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Strickland family of Sizergh | Sizergh Castle, Cumbria |
Sutton baronets | Benham Place, Berkshire (formerly) |
Tempest family | Stella Hall, County Durham |
Throckmorton baronets | Coughton Court, Warwickshire |
Tollemache family | Helmingham Hall, Suffolk |
Towneley family | Towneley Hall, Lancashire |
de Trafford baronets | Croston Hall, Lancashire |
Trevelyan baronets | Wallington Hall, Northumberland |
Verney family | Claydon House, Buckinghamshire |
Vernon family | Haddon Hall, Derbyshire |
Wrightson family | Cusworth Hall, South Yorkshire |
[6]Gosling | Hassobury, Farnham |
References[]
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See also[]
Categories:
- Nobility of the United Kingdom
- Noble families of the United Kingdom
- English families
- English gentry families
- Lists of buildings and structures in the United Kingdom
- Lists of British nobility
- Noble families in the British Isles