#wrest park

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Wrest Park, England

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Lady Jane Grey (1536/7 – 12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley after her marriage, and nicknamed as the "Nine Days Queen," was an English noblewoman who was proclaimed Queen of England and Ireland on 10 July 1553 and reigned until she was deposed by her cousin, Mary I, on 19 July 1553.

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Wrest Park's Chinese Bridge by Matthew Wells

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The Archer Pavilion, Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom,

Thomas Archer's pavilion, built between 1709 and 1711 for Henry de Grey, Duke of Kent. Trompe l'œil paintings by Mark Anthony Hauduroy.

Cover: English Heritage Photo Library,

©Paul Highnam for Country Life Credit: Country Life

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The Obelisk, Trent Park, Greater London

Obelisks might not seem as exciting as some of the quirkier landscape ornaments, but this one began a particularly interesting life in around 1732. Two hundred years later it was one of a group of monuments from Wrest Park in Bedfordshire that was sold to the wealthy socialite and politician Sir Philip Sassoon, and taken to his seat at Trent Park in Middlesex. There each was carefully placed in…

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Wrest Park and Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Wrest Park and Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Couple of stops from the journey north from Surrey to York, along the mostly uninteresting M1 motorway.

Home to one of the most significant gardens in Britain, Wrest Park is a substantial English Heritage site close to Luton. The house was used as a hospital in WW1, and suffered a fire in 1917 so there isn’t much left inside but the gardens alone make it worth a visit.

They’re very French…

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Wrest Park