Fonthill Gifford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, to the north of the Nadder valley, 14 miles (23 km) west of Salisbury. The name of...
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Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England...
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Fonthill or Font Hill may refer to: Fonthill Bishop, village in Wiltshire, England Fonthill Gifford, village in Wiltshire, England Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill...
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1924); writer m. Thomas Merthyr Guest. Lord Westminster died at Fonthill House, Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire on 31 October 1869 after a short illness and was...
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spendthrift. The Earl and Countess of Castlehaven lived mainly in Fonthill Gifford, the country seat of the Touchets in southern England. Some time after...
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the village of Fonthill Bishop, east of the village of Fonthill Gifford, and northeast of Fonthill Abbey. The lake is 1.6 km (1 mi) long and approximately...
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Crowmarsh Gifford, Oxfordshire Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Gifford, East Lothian Giffordland, North Ayrshire Gifford Park,...
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was stated that one such favourite, Henry Skipwith, had arrived at Fonthill Gifford in 1621 and that within a few years he was so close to Castlehaven...
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an archway with two flanking lodges spans the road to Fonthill Gifford. This entrance to Fonthill Park was probably built c. 1756 to designs of John Vardy;...
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of Sir James Marvyn (1529–1611) and his first wife Amy Clarke from Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire. They had seven children: Eleanor Tuchet (1590–1652), who...
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