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Burghley House

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Burghley House

House in Cambridgeshire, England, near Stamford, Lincolnshire. Built between 1556 and 1587 by William Cecil, first Lord Burghley, it is now the seat of his descendants, the Marquesses of Exeter. Capability Brown laid out the surrounding park from 1756.

The house has a brilliant skyline of turrets and chimneys, two entrance facades (due possibly to a change of mind by Burghley), and a courtyard dominated by a three-storeyed clock tower with an obelisk spire. The interiors of Burghley are mainly late 17th century, but the Elizabethan stairs, hall, and kitchens remain.

Burghley is one of the larger Elizabethan houses. Lord Burghley's other palace, Theobalds, demolished in 1650, was still larger.



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