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    Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family...
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    Confessor had a hunting lodge at Mentmore, between the site of the present Mentmore Towers and the hamlet of Crafton at a site known as Berrystead. The well of...
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    Olby [1969] Case law: In the 2009 case of Fitzroy Robinson Ltd. v Mentmore Towers Ltd., a statement became untrue and fraudulently misrepresented when...
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    West Lothian, in Scotland, and until 1977 also resided at Mentmore Towers, near Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, in England. Archibald Primrose, 1st Earl of...
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  • Christiane Kubrick titled "View from the Mentmore" can be seen hanging next to the Christmas tree. Mentmore Towers is an English country house in the south...
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    Eythrope Flint House, Buckinghamshire Halton House Hamble Cliff House Mentmore Towers Princes Risborough Manor House Shorncliffe Lodge Waddesdon Manor Swinton...
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    early but typical, domestic examples of the Neo-Renaissance include Mentmore Towers and the Château de Ferrières, both designed in the 1850s by Joseph...
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    Buckinghamshire Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex Halton House, Halton Mentmore Towers, Mentmore Shorncliffe Lodge, Folkestone, Kent Tring Park Mansion, Tring...
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    Paxton was commissioned by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild to design Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire. This was to be one of the greatest country houses...
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    to impart a Baroque swagger to the Northern Mannerist vocabulary. Mentmore Towers, by Joseph Paxton, is an enormous revival of a Smythson-type style...
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  • the more recent Batman Begins (2005), the former Rothschild estate, Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, was used to portray Wayne Manor's exterior and...
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    in their own newly built castles and palaces, as, for example, in Mentmore Towers, Waddesdon Manor, the Château de Ferrières, and the Villa Ephrussi...
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    Park – Ealing, London Halton House – Halton, Buckinghamshire Mentmore TowersMentmore, Buckinghamshire Spencer House – St James's, London (a leasehold...
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    marriage to Hannah de Rothschild, Rosebery acquired the Mentmore Towers estate and Mentmore stud near Leighton Buzzard which had been built by Mayer...
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    it was acquired by Baron Mayer de Rothschild (of the neighbouring Mentmore Towers estate). The Rothschild family had begun to acquire vast tracts of...
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  • been valued at over £130m six months earlier. Later that year the Mentmore Towers project, which Halabi had purchased in 1997 with a view to turning...
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    Anthony Nathan de Rothschild at Aston Clinton; and Mayer at Mentmore. Mayer built Mentmore Towers, the most sumptuous of the English Rothschild houses at...
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  • Hot 100. The accompanying music video for "Goodbye" was filmed at Mentmore Towers and featured the group singing the song at a castle; Melanie Brown...
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    Mentmore Towers, one of the many Rothschild mansions built in Buckinghamshire...
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    Chapman and Hall, 1933 p 41 Good Stuff IT Services (1951-09-26). "Mentmore Towers - Mentmore - Buckinghamshire - England". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved...
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  • Movement." The Maharishi Foundation in the UK purchased the historic Mentmore Towers in 1978 for £240,000 for use as a headquarters and college. The stately...
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  • to the public. Filming was also done at ex-Rothschild stately home Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, in London, Mexico City, Guanajuato, Nepal, New...
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    head game-keeper it also served as the lodge to the Crafton drive of Mentmore Towers. The hamlet is reached only by one small cul-de-sac road. It contains...
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    not, a fact highlighted in the early 1970s by the dispersal sale of Mentmore Towers. The high profile campaign of Marcus Binney, eminent architectural...
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  • Walter van Dyk as Thoolen Filming took place in Paris, France; Mentmore Towers, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, England; London, England; and Amsterdam, Netherlands...
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  • Fawlty Towers. Fawlty Towers at IMDb Fawlty Towers at BBC Online Fawlty Towers at BBC Online Fawlty Towers at the British Film Institute Fawlty Towers at...
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    691°W / 51.868; -0.691 Mentmore Stud and Crafton Stud were thoroughbred horse breeding operations that were part of the Mentmore Towers estate on the Bedfordshire...
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    of older houses; the Château de Ferrières in France was inspired by Mentmore Towers, which in turn is a copy of Wollaton Hall. Other mansions were built...
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    the Crystal Palace. Paxton also continued to build such houses as Mentmore Towers, in the still popular English Renaissance styles. New methods of construction...
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    of Devonshire of Chatsworth House, Prime Minister Lord Rosebery of Mentmore Towers, and Baron Lionel de Rothschild, grandson of Mayer Amschel, founder...
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