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Waddesdon Manor

England · 19th century

Founded
1877
Style
Renaissance Revival architecture
Architect
Hippolyte Destailleur, Elie Lainé
Heritage status
Grade I listed building · Grade I listed park and garden
Location
Waddesdon
Coordinates
51.84243°, -0.93727°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Waddesdon Manor in England
Photo: Mattlever · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. Owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation, it is one of the National Trust's most visited properties, with over 463,000 visitors in 2019.

The Grade I listed house was built in a mostly Neo-Renaissance style, copying individual features of several French châteaux, between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898) as a weekend residence for entertaining and to house his collection of arts and antiquities. As the manor and estate have passed through three generations of the Rothschild family, the contents of the house have expanded to become one of the most rare and valuable collections in the world. In 1957, James de Rothschild bequeathed the house and its contents to the National Trust, opening the house and gardens for the benefit of the general public. Unusually for a National Trust property, the family of James Rothschild, the donor, manage the house. The Rothschild Foundation, chaired by Dame Hannah Rothschild, continues to invest in the property.

Text adapted from “Waddesdon Manor” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Waddesdon Manor ranks #457 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #41 of the 397 mapped in England. Founded 1877, it is older than 5% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 782 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 19,111 times in the last 60 days, more than 97% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Oxford, 24 km away. See how England compares in the castle statistics.

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