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Burghley House

England · 16th century

Founded
c. 1550
Style
Elizabethan architecture
Heritage status
Grade II* listed park and garden · Grade I listed building
Location
Barnack
Coordinates
52.6425°, -0.45306°
Links
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Burghley House in England
Photo: Anthony Masi from UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Burghley House is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior (Exeter) branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.

The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodellings before 1800. The house is open to the public on a seasonal basis and displays a circuit of grand and richly furnished state apartments. Its park was laid out by Capability Brown.

The house is on the boundary of the civil parishes of Barnack and St Martin's Without in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire. It was formerly part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally associated with Northamptonshire. It lies 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south of Stamford and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Peterborough city centre.

The house is now run by the Burghley House Preservation Trust, which is controlled by the Cecil family.

Text adapted from “Burghley House” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Burghley House ranks #361 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #31 of the 397 mapped in England. Founded c. 1550, it is older than 37% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 933 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 24,895 times in the last 60 days, more than 98% of the atlas. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Cambridge (England), 62 km away. See how England compares in the castle statistics.

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