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    Woburn Abbey (/ˈwoʊbərn/), occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford...
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    that also includes Woburn Abbey and its 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) deer park. The Safari Park itself covers 360 acres (150 ha). Woburn Safari Park is a member...
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    933. Woburn was first recorded as a hamlet in 969 and is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is best known as the location of Woburn Abbey (a stately...
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    The courses are situated amid mature woodland on the Duke of Bedford's Woburn Abbey estate. Ryder Cup and PGA Tour player Ian Poulter of England is the club's...
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    United States. The vast historic estates of the Dukes of Bedford included Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, the Bedford Estate in London's Covent Garden and Bloomsbury...
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    and J. Chipperfield founded Woburn Safari Park, a commercial addition and expansion of the tourist business of Woburn Abbey, the family seat. John Ian...
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    a pedestrian shopping street in the Regency era. Its name comes from Woburn Abbey, the main country seat of the Dukes of Bedford, who developed much of...
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  • district Woburn, Quebec, Canada Woburn, Bedfordshire Woburn Abbey Woburn Safari Park Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire Woburn Golf and Country Club, in Little...
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    deer from the Berlin Zoo and built up a large herd on his estate at Woburn Abbey. In the 1980s, the duke's great-grandson Robin Russell, 14th Duke of...
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  • Henrietta Russell, Duchess of Bedford (category People from Woburn, Bedfordshire)
    widow of Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, with whom she lived at Woburn Abbey. Until her husband succeeded to the Dukedom in 2002, she was better known...
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  • Fonthill Abbey (Beckford's Folly), a Gothic Revival country house in Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, England; it was never an actual abbey Woburn Abbey, near...
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  • March 1962) is a British peer and landowner. His main estate is based at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire. He ranked 210 on the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List with...
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    unveiled at Woburn Abbey". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2014-04-08. "Woburn Abbey unveils Rembrandt Masterpiece ~ Woburn News". Woburn.co.uk. 2012-03-28...
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    soon, baby, because look who's standing here tonight." He performed at Woburn Abbey on July 2, 1977, to an audience of 55,000 British fans. The concert and...
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    portrait, in addition to several derivative portraits: The version at Woburn Abbey The version in the National Portrait Gallery, London, which has been...
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    created a duke until ten years following her death. The couple resided at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, and their marriage was said to have been happy. For...
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    survived. Two years later the Duke of Bedford had a shell room built at Woburn Abbey, featuring shell mosaics and carved stone. This, and another at Skipton...
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    Duchess and her husband entertained the Queen at their country house Woburn Abbey in 1841. The Duchess was also the chief mourner at the funeral of The...
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    (19) at the Wallace Collection and a set of 24 in the dining room at Woburn Abbey. A large set of Canaletto works was also part of the collection of the...
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    23 October, 1732 made Lady Diana Duchess of Bedford and châtelaine of Woburn Abbey. The news of her brother-in-law's death had not yet reached England when...
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  • (1140 Clairvaux) Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England (1145 Fountains): 43  Alien priory List of Cistercian abbeys in Ireland List of abbeys and priories in...
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  • ending with Olive, Lady Baillie) – now owned by Leeds Castle Foundation. Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire (Dukes of Bedford) Beaulieu Palace House Blenheim Palace...
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    individual client. When in 1746 the Duke of Bedford decided to rebuild Woburn Abbey, he chose the fashionable Palladian style, and selected the architect...
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    London Zoo until 1896, when the Duke of Bedford oversaw their transfer to Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. More of the animals were imported and added to the herd...
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    'picturesque' landscapes in Britain at Blaise Castle, near Bristol. At Woburn Abbey, Repton foreshadowed another nineteenth-century development, creating...
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    friends, commissioned Holland to remodel and extend his country residence Woburn Abbey beginning in 1786. This involved a remodelling the south front and within...
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    the collection of the Earl of Yarborough is the original, whilst the Woburn Abbey version is a copy. Both versions shows Mary with brown hair, probably...
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    Although the Russells soon abandoned Chenies as its main seat in favour of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, Chenies parish church remains the site of the private...
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    There are three known copies of the Tusculum portrait, which reside in Woburn Abbey and in private collections in Florence and Rome. Arles bust, possible...
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    completed in 1817. In 1819 it was installed at the Duke's residence in Woburn Abbey. Canova travelled to England to supervise its installation, choosing...
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