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Waddesdon Manor (Aylesbury)

Description: Waddesdon / nr Aylesbury / Buckinghamshire / HP18 0JH. / Magnificent house and grounds in the style of a 16th-century ... more

Waddesdon Manor (Aylesbury) ... French château.

Newest Review: ... minutes to gain access to the house. With tickets in hand you have a chance to admire the north front of the house, through the front door of which you gain entry. This was a house built very much to impress, as a base for entertaining guests. Indeed it was not a prime residence of the Rothschild family, only being open between May and August for weekend house parties. By visiting here ... more

... on a sunny summer weekend, we are following in the footsteps of the rich, the famous and the royal. They did not require a timed entry ticket - but then, there were far fewer of "them"! A VERY WARM WELCOME FOR RICHADA AND PARTY My wife is par...more

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Waddesdon Manor (Aylesbury): ONE OF ENGLAND'S FINEST HOUSES (3713 words)
by Richada - written on 01/02/08 (Very useful, 135 readings)
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The very word "Rothschild" will bring to mind wealth in any circle. As it happens, before visiting Waddesdon, a place that, until spotting it in the National Trust Handbook in 2006, we had not heard of, I knew very little indeed about the Rothschild family, only that they possessed almost unbelievable wealth. The overall experience gained from a visit to this, or any of their other many houses, can only reinforce that opinion. In fact this is the ONLY Rothschild house now open to the public - at the turn of the last century the family had 42 such houses spread all over Europe. Not bad going considering that this rags to riches story had started less than one ...

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