Rothschild properties in the home counties

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Waddesdon Manor. The north entrance facade.

The Rothschild family owned multiple estates in the home counties, particularly the Buckinghamshire area.

Properties[]

The country houses that were purchased or built in or around Buckinghamshire included:^[1]

Mentmore Towers

• Ascott House, Wing in the Vale of Aylesbury^[2]
• Aston Clinton House, Aston Clinton in the Vale of Aylesbury^[3]
• Champneys, Wigginton on the edge of the Chiltern Hills^[4]
• Eythrope, Buckinghamshire^[5]
• Exbury estate, Hampshire Exbury in the New Forest National Park.^[6]
• Flint House,^[7] Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire^[8]
• Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex^[9]
• Halton House, Halton^[10]
  

  Halton House, Buckinghamshire
• Mentmore Towers, Mentmore^[11]
• Shorncliffe Lodge, Folkestone, Kent^[12]
• Tring Park Mansion, Tring, Hertfordshire^[13]
• Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire^[14]
• Windmill Hill, Buckinghamshire, Waddesdon^[15]

History[]

Flint House

Nathan Mayer Rothschild had rented Tring Park in Tring, Hertfordshire in the 1830s. It was purchased with 4,000 acres (16 km²) by Lionel Rothschild in May 1872 as his principal country residence.^[16] Waddesdon Manor, near to the market town of Aylesbury, was built in the 1870s,^[17] Further afield, the Rothschild family owned the Exbury estate in Hampshire, known for the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, now run by a charity.^[18]

See also[]

• George Devey

References[]

• Ferguson, Niall (1998). The World's Banker: the History of the House of Rothschild. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-81539-3.