Godmersham Park is a Grade I listed house in Godmersham in the English county of Kent. The house is on the edge of the North Downs between Ashford and...
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Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village straddles the Great Stour river where it cuts through the...
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Knight's family at Godmersham Park and became a close friend of Edward's sister, the writer Jane Austen. While at Godmersham Park, Anne Sharp taught Jane...
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wealthy but childless Knight family, and inherited their property of Godmersham Park. Fanny was the eldest of Edward and Elizabeth's eleven children. As...
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Edward Austen Knight (category People from Godmersham)
died in 1794 he left the Godmersham Park estate to his wife for her life, with the remainder going to Edward. She left Godmersham before her death to move...
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before leaving the city in June 1805 for a family visit to Steventon and Godmersham. They moved for the autumn months to the newly fashionable seaside resort...
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to her" – from a drawing by Isabel Bishop (1902–1988). An image of Godmersham Park, the home of Edward Austen Knight, Jane Austen's brother. Jane Austen...
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Chawton House (category Grade II listed parks and gardens in Hampshire)
himself resided at Godmersham Park, but his son, Edward Knight II, moved to Chawton House following his marriage, and sold Godmersham Park following his father's...
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Elizabeth II and Elizabeth College, St Peter Port on the front and Saumarez Park, Les Niaux Watermill, Le Trepied Dolmen on the back £20 note, pink, Queen...
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(equivalent to £1,565,539 in 2023). At the sale of the contents of Godmersham Park in June 1983 Ward-Jackson paid £144,400 for a Gothic tapestry (equivalent...
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