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    Haldon House (pronounced: "Hol-don") on the eastern side of the Haldon Hills in the parishes of Dunchideock and Kenn, near Exeter in Devon, England, was...
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    50°38′N 3°33′W / 50.64°N 3.55°W / 50.64; -3.55 The Haldon Hills, usually known simply as Haldon, is a ridge of high ground in Devon, England. It is situated...
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    Baronet and became extinct upon the death of the fifth baron in 1939. Haldon House was the family seat. Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (1717–1798) Sir Lawrence...
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    honoured guest of his friend Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (1717-1798) at Haldon House in the parish of Dunchideock in Devon, a fellow officer of the British...
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  • Lawrence Vaughan Palk, 3rd Baronet (24 April 1793 – 16 May 1860) of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, near Exeter in Devon, was a landowner and Member...
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    Dunchideock within the former Haldon estate, about a mile south-west of Haldon House. Its location on the ridge of the Haldon Hills gives it extensive views...
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    Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (December 1717 – 29 April 1798) of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, in Devon, England, was an officer of the British East...
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    Anne Horatia Waldegrave 3. Adelaide Seymour 14. Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet of Haldon House 7. Elizabeth Malet Palk 15. Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Vaughan...
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    Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon (5 January 1818 – 23 March 1883), known as Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet from 1860 to 1880, was a British Conservative...
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    Fort Belvedere, Surrey (category Country houses in Surrey)
    follies on various large estates, including: Haldon Belvedere, also known as Lawrence Tower (1788), Haldon House, near Exeter, Devon, built by Sir Robert...
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  • godmother was Queen Alexandra. Her youth was spent at Althorp and at Spencer House. Lady Margaret was mainly educated at home under a governess, but spent...
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    England. Initially maid to Lady Palk of Haldon House, Devon, she entered the service of Lady Blantyre at Stafford House, London, in 1846. On 27 May 1847 she...
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  • Haldon Chase (1923 – 2006), often referred to as "Hal Chase", was a Denver-born archaeologist, who was known for his archaeological research on several...
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    Torwood House into a palatial residence, and purchased another estate at Haldon, where he built Haldon House as his new seat, one of the grandest houses in...
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    named Haldon House, on the east side of the Haldon Hills, influenced by Buckingham House in London, and moved his residence there. Ashton House was an...
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    Prideaux, 5th Baronet of Netherton. His widow purchased the palatial Haldon House in the parish of Dunchideock, Devon, from Sir John Chichester, 5th Baronet...
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    Ashton and built himself nearby a grand mansion named Haldon House, influenced by Buckingham House in London. Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (c. 1578–1658)...
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    dun-CHID-ee-ək) is a small civil parish on the north eastern slopes of the Haldon Hills in Teignbridge, Devon, England. It covers an area of 392 hectares...
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    Palk, 1st Baronet (1717-1798), lived in the parish of Dunchideock at Haldon House and was buried in the same parish church. A mural monument to Aaron Baker...
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    were several owners, one of whom was Sir Robert Palk (1717–1798) of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, in Devon. In 1850 it was in use as a farmhouse...
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    Spitchwick (redirect from Spitchwick House)
    expanses of woodland at Haldon House, having also had a change of mind as to location, in his case from Tor Mohun to Haldon. He was at first "struck...
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    Mr Beech, who sold it to Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (1717-1798) of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, Devon. It was sold by Palk to Charles Clifford...
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    He was possibly related to the family of the Palk baronets of Haldon House, in the Haldon Hills, near Kenton. His hunting diaries and subscription lists...
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    Tehidy and required alternative housing, when she purchased the palatial Haldon House in the parish of Dunchideock in Devon, from Sir John Chichester, 5th...
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    Haldon & Turnbull 2007, p. 216. Nicolle, Haldon & Turnbull 2007, p. 204. Nicolle, Haldon & Turnbull 2007, p. 215. Carr 2015, p. 251. Nicolle, Haldon &...
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     136–138; Haldon 2008, p. 257; Kaldellis 2023, pp. 438–440. Treadgold 2002, pp. 137–138; Haldon 2008, p. 257; Auzépy 2009, p. 265. Haldon 2008, pp. 258–259;...
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  • Amroseden 24 August 1733 Turner, Page-Turner extant Dryden baronets Palk of Haldon House 19 June 1782 Palk extinct 1945 fourth Baronet created Baron Holden in...
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    Escot, Talaton (redirect from Escot House)
    Nabob (like his contemporary Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (1717–1798) of Haldon House). He was from Exeter and had made a fortune in the East Indies where...
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  • 1917), extinct with the grantee's death on 7 February 1945. Palk of Haldon House (cr. 19 June 1782), extinct with the death of the ninth baronet. Scott...
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    Chudleigh, at the foot of the Haldon Hills, built in the 1770s by John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon (1735–1788) of Saltram House, Plympton, Devon. Hams Barton...
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