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Wrest Park, the Glossary

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Country houses in Bedfordshire
English Heritage sites in Bedfordshire
Gardens in Bedfordshire
Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire
Grade I listed garden and park buildings
Rococo architecture in England
Tourist attractions in Bedfordshire

Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas

Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas and 5th Lord Dingwall, PC (25 May 1876 – 3 November 1916), who preferred to be known as Bron Herbert, was a radical British Liberal politician and fighter pilot.

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Banqueting house

In English architecture, mainly from the Tudor period onwards, a banqueting house is a separate pavilion-like building reached through the gardens from the main residence, whose use is purely for entertaining, especially eating.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Batty Langley

Batty Langley (baptised 14 September 1696 – 3 March 1751) was an English garden designer, and prolific writer who produced a number of engraved designs for "Gothick" structures, summerhouses and garden seats in the years before the mid-18th century.

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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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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England.

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Belgravia (TV series)

Belgravia is a British Regency and Victorian-era historical drama television series, set in the 19th century, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Julian Fellowes—both named after Belgravia, an affluent district of London.

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Capability Brown

Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

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Charles Read (historian)

Charles Read is a British economic historian based at the University of Cambridge, where he is Junior Proctor of the University, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and a bye-fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

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Christmas tree

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

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Country house poem

A country house poem is a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house.

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De Grey Mausoleum

The de Grey Mausoleum in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, is one of the largest sepulchral chapels in the country. Wrest Park and de Grey Mausoleum are English Heritage sites in Bedfordshire and Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.

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England

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

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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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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Estate (land)

An estate is a large parcel of land under single ownership, which would historically generate income for its owner.

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Flog It!

Flog It! is a BBC television series presented by Paul Martin that was broadcast from 27 May 2002 to May 2020.

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Flyboys (film)

Flyboys is a 2006 war drama film starring James Franco, Martin Henderson, Jean Reno, Jennifer Decker, David Ellison, Abdul Salis, Philip Winchester, and Tyler Labine.

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Geophysical survey

Geophysical survey is the systematic collection of geophysical data for spatial studies.

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George London (landscape architect)

George London (c. 1640–1714) was an English nurseryman and garden designer.

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Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, KG, PC (16715 June 1740) was a British politician and courtier.

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Henry Wise (gardener)

Henry Wise (bapt. 4 September 1653 – 15 December 1738) was an English gardener, designer, and nurseryman.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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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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Howard Colvin

Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 and The History of the King's Works.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Jacques-François Blondel

Jacques-François Blondel (8 January 1705 – 9 January 1774) was an 18th-century French architect and teacher.

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Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey

Jemima Campbell, 2nd Marchioness Grey and Countess of Hardwicke or Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey; 9 October 1723 – 10 January 1797), was a British peeress.

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John Rocque

John Rocque (originally Jean; –1762) was a French-born British surveyor and cartographer, best known for his detailed map of London published in 1746.

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Lily Allen

Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and actress.

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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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Mansion

A mansion is a large dwelling house.

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Nan Ino Cooper, 10th Baroness Lucas

Nan Ino Cooper, 10th Baroness Lucas and 6th Lady Dingwall (13 June 1880 – 1958) was a British nurse and educator.

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National Lottery Heritage Fund

The National Lottery Heritage Fund, formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).

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Orangery

An orangery or orangerie is a room or dedicated building, historically where orange and other fruit trees are protected during the winter, as a large form of greenhouse or conservatory.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, PC, FRS (9 March 1720 – 16 May 1790), styled Viscount Royston between 1754 and 1764, was an English politician and writer.

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Ravensworth Castle, Lamesley

Ravensworth Castle is a ruinous Grade II* listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument situated at Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Rococo Revival

The Rococo Revival style emerged in Britain and France in the 19th century.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Sequoiadendron giganteum

Sequoiadendron giganteum, also known as the giant sequoia, giant redwood or Sierra redwood is a coniferous tree, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae.

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Silsoe

Silsoe is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England.

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Status Quo (band)

Status Quo are a British rock band.

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Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British dance contest show in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance.

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Sun Alliance (company)

Sun Alliance Group plc was a large insurance business with its main offices in the City of London and later Horsham.

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The Death of Stalin

The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire black comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider and Ian Martin with Peter Fellows.

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The Fear (Lily Allen song)

"The Fear" is a song by English singer-songwriter Lily Allen from her second studio album, It's Not Me, It's You (2009).

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The Gardens Trust

The Gardens Trust (formerly the Garden History Society) is a national membership organisation in the United Kingdom established to study the history of gardening and to protect historic gardens.

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The Royals (TV series)

The Royals is an American primetime television drama soap opera that premiered on E! on March 15, 2015.

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The Serpent (TV series)

The Serpent is a 2021 British crime drama television serial developed by Mammoth Screen and commissioned by the BBC.

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Thomas Archer

Thomas Archer (1668–1743) was an English Baroque architect.

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Thomas Carew

Thomas Carew (pronounced as "Carey") (1595 – 22 March 1640) was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets.

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Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey

Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham, 6th Baron Lucas, KG, PC, FRS (born Robinson, later Weddell; 8 December 178114 November 1859), styled as The Hon.

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Trompe-l'œil

paren) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture.

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References

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

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See also

Country houses in Bedfordshire

English Heritage sites in Bedfordshire

Gardens in Bedfordshire

Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire

Grade I listed garden and park buildings

Rococo architecture in England

Tourist attractions in Bedfordshire

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