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Longleat

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Longleat

Elizabethan house situated in Wiltshire between Warminster and Frome; the seat of the Marquess of Bath. Begun in 1568 by John Thynne (died 1580), it was revolutionary in its classic symmetry and simplicity, and allocation of most of the wall to window space. Only the exterior survives intact: the interior decoration is now mainly 19th century. Stables were added by Jeffrey Wyatville (1807–11), and the park was laid out by Capability Brown. The estate contains a safari park, the first of its kind in England.

The library of the house contains four folios of Shakespeare.



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Two edifices of particular note were Sir Francis Willoughby's Wollaton Hall and Sir John Thynne's Longleat, the former constructed with consummate art (summo artzficio & summa arte nuper constructam) and the latter elegant and refined in spite of having been consumed twice by flames (omni elegantia, & nitore perpolitae, licet seine
The 12-day trip, designed especially for families, includes visits to London, Salisbury, Longleat, Bath, Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Windsor.
But his world title did not come without a titanic battle during a tough season in which he had to race in seven different countries on three continents, including Abu Dhabi, UAE; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Zeltweg, Austria; Rock of Cashel, Ireland; Longleat, England; and Budapest, Hungary.
 
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