Edge Rewrite
// HTMLRewriter · presentation

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Cloudflare fetched the original article and streamed it through HTMLRewriter to apply an entirely new visual system without rebuilding the source page.

Jump to content

Chippenham Park

Chippenham Park
The Whig Junto by John James Baker, 1710. It was commissioned by a former owner of the house the Earl of Orford to hang there. Today it is in the Tate Britain in London.

Chippenham Park is a country house in Chippenham, Cambridgeshire.

History

[edit]

The Chippenham Park Estate was acquired by Thomas Revett, a London merchant, in 1558. It passed to the Russell family around 1600 and the present house was commissioned by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford in 1689.[1] It was acquired by John Tharp in 1791[2] and remained in the ownership of the Tharp family until 1948 when it inherited by a nephew Basil Bacon.[1] It remained in the Bacon family until it was inherited by Mr and Mrs Eustace Crawley in 1985. The house is now a wedding venue.[3]

References

[edit]
  1. 1 2 Wareham, A F; Wright, A P M (2002). "'Chippenham: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely". Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire), London. pp. 374–379. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  2. A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Vol. 10. 2002. pp. 370–374. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  3. "History of Chippenham Park". Chippenham Park. Retrieved 30 May 2015.

52°17′48″N 0°26′22″E / 52.2968°N 0.4394°E / 52.2968; 0.4394