The 'destruction of the English country house' in the period since the late nineteenth century looms large in popular consciousness, and has received increasing attention from historians in recent years. There is no doubt that demolitions did occur on a large scale, especially in the middle ...
The country houses lost from the landscape since the late nineteenth century exercise a peculiar grip on the English imagination, seeming to symbolise the ... D Dixon - 《Reference Reviews》 被引量: 0发表: 2015年 The country houses and stately homes of Great Britain. CHN: Norfolk The country...
The nunnery gained wealth and prestige but this suffered somewhat as a result of floods in 1377 with some 720 acres of land permanently lost. It nonetheless remained one of the wealthiest in England and it’s said the abbess had precedence over all other abbesses in the country. After the a...
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In the poetry book "House of Contrasts" we see for a moment the world in which every night, humans made of paper return to the keyhole of their houses cursing the day that does not last long enough so they could find themselves. But that is precisely why the day in this book lasts ...
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But while country houses such as Burghley still stand as monuments to the wealth and power of England’s foremost statesmen, the great London mansions that were often their prototypes have been lost, buried beneath the Strand’s many transformations. Mostly, the street names are all that remains...
We wandered around small stone circles of former market and meeting places, ruins of drainage systems and agricultural structures before another stone trail took us up to the ‘Central Axis’. Here was where the main houses and temples once stood, now a site of large, stacked stone terraces ...
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and charming rooftop restaurants offering panoramic views of the Indian Ocean. Don't miss the chance to visit iconic landmarks such as the House of Wonders, a grand palace that once served as the Sultan's residence, or the Old Fort, a 17th-century fortress that now houses an open-air am...