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Prideaux Place, the Glossary

Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England.^[1]

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1592 establishments in England
Gardens in Cornwall
Grade I listed buildings in Cornwall
Grade II listed parks and gardens in Cornwall
Historic house museums in Cornwall
Padstow

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas is a British supernatural anthology television series created by Lawrence Gordon Clark.

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Antiques Roadshow is a British television programme broadcast by the BBC in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people (generally speaking).

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Antiques Roadshow (series 29)

Antiques Roadshow is a British television series produced by the BBC since 1979.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Camelford (UK Parliament constituency)

Camelford was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1552 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Country Life (magazine)

Country Life (stylised in all caps) is a British weekly perfect-bound glossy magazine that is published by Future plc.

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Dean of Norwich

The Dean of Norwich is the head of the Chapter of Norwich Cathedral in Norwich, England.

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Deer park (England)

In medieval and Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland, a deer park was an enclosed area containing deer.

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Deputy lieutenant

In the United Kingdom, a deputy lieutenant is a Crown appointment and one of several deputies to the lord-lieutenant of a lieutenancy area – an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Earl of Bath

Earl of Bath was a title that was created five times in British history, three times in the Peerage of England, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Edmund Prideaux (artist)

Edmund Prideaux (1693–1745) was an English painter and architect in Cornwall best known for his involvement in the architectural remodelling of Prideaux Place, an English country house located in Padstow.

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Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne

Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne (29 April 1829 – 6 February 1893), known as E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, was a British Liberal and later Conservative politician.

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Elizabethan architecture

Elizabethan architecture refers to buildings of a certain medieval style constructed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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Escheat

Escheat (from the Latin excidere for "fall away") is a common law doctrine that transfers the real property of a person who has died without heirs to the crown or state.

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Fallow deer

Fallow deer is the common name for species of deer in the genus Dama of subfamily Cervinae.

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Fowelscombe

Fowelscombe is a historic manor in the parish of UgboroughRisdon, p.179 in Devon, England.

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Fowey

Fowey (Fowydh, meaning 'Beech Trees') is a port town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).

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Great chamber

The great chamber was the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion, or manor house after the great hall.

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High Sheriff of Cornwall

Sheriffs and high sheriffs of Cornwall: a chronological list: The right to choose high sheriffs each year is vested in the Duchy of Cornwall.

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High Sheriff of Devon

The High Sheriff of Devon is the Kings's representative for the County of Devon, a territory known as his/her bailiwick.

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Holsworthy

Holsworthy is a market town and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, west of Exeter.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

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Humphrey Prideaux

Humphrey Prideaux (3 May 1648 – 1 November 1724) was a Cornish churchman and orientalist, Dean of Norwich from 1702.

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John MacLean (historian)

Sir John Maclean KB, FSA (17 September 1811 – 5 March 1895) was a British civil servant, genealogist and author.

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John Mundy (mayor)

Sir John Mundy (died 1537) was a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and was Lord Mayor of London in 1522.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Lord Mayor of London

The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Michael Aspel

Michael Terence Aspel (born 12 January 1933) is a retired English television presenter and newsreader.

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Netherton, Farway

Netherton in the parish of Farway in Devon is an historic estate situated about 3 1/2 miles south-east of Honiton.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Padstow

Padstow (Cornish Standard Written Form) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Padstow Coastal Gun Battery

Padstow Coastal Gun Battery was built in the summer of 1940 at the northern end of the Bodmin Stop Line to defend against a German invasion of Britain. Prideaux Place and Padstow Coastal Gun Battery are Padstow.

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Prideaux Castle

Prideaux Castle is a multivallate Iron Age hillfort situated atop a 133 m (435 ft) high conical hill near the southern boundary of the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Richard Carew (antiquary)

Richard Carew (17 July 1555 – 6 November 1620) was an Cornish translator and antiquary.

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Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew

Robert Shapland Carew, 1st Baron Carew KP (9 March 1787 – 2 June 1856) was an Irish Whig Party politician and landowner.

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Roger Prideaux (MP)

Roger Prideaux (by 1524 – 8 January 1582), of Soldon, Holsworthy, Devon and London, was an English politician.

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Rosamunde Pilcher

Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (née Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall.

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Saltash (UK Parliament constituency)

Saltash, sometimes called Essa, was a "rotten borough" in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1552 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

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Secretary of State for the Northern Department

The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a position in the Cabinet of the government of Great Britain up to 1782.

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Serjeant-at-law

A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar.

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Shitterton

Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis, Dorset, England.

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Simon Jenkins

Sir Simon David Jenkins FLSW (born 10 June 1943) is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor.

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Sir Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet of Netherton

Sir Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet (1554–1628), of Netherton in the parish of Farway, Devon, was a Councillor at Law and Double Reader of the Inner Temple and was created a baronet on 17 July 1622.

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St Breock

St Breock (Nanssans) is a village and a civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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St Petroc's Church, Bodmin

St Petroc's Church, Bodmin, also known as Bodmin Parish Church is an Anglican parish church in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Stowe, Kilkhampton

Stowe House in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, England, UK, was a mansion built in 1679 by John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701) and demolished in 1739. Prideaux Place and Stowe, Kilkhampton are country houses in Cornwall.

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Strawberry Hill House

Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward.

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Stuart Restoration

The Stuart Restoration was the re-instatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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Sturminster Newton

Sturminster Newton is a town and civil parish situated on the River Stour in the north of Dorset, England.

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Sutcombe

Sutcombe is a village and civil parish in the local government district of Torridge, Devon, England.

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The Ash Tree (A Ghost Story for Christmas)

"The Ash Tree" is a short film which serves as the fifth episode of the British supernatural anthology television series A Ghost Story for Christmas.

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The History of Parliament

The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England.

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Third Protectorate Parliament

The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons.

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Totnes (UK Parliament constituency)

Totnes was a parliamentary constituency in Devon represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Twickenham

Twickenham is a suburban district in London, England.

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Werrington, Cornwall

Werrington (Trewolvredow) is a civil parish and former manor now in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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William Morice (Secretary of State)

Sir William Morice (6 November 1602 – 12 December 1676) of Werrington in Devon, was an English statesman and theologian.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prideaux_Place

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See also

1592 establishments in England

Gardens in Cornwall

Grade I listed buildings in Cornwall

Grade II listed parks and gardens in Cornwall

Historic house museums in Cornwall

Padstow

References