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Knebworth House.

Bulwer Lytton, Knebworth's most famous resident, wrote the following concerning his feelings in regard to his Hertfordshire home "The place has something of the character of Penshurst, and its venerable avenues, which slope from the house down to the declivity of the park, giving wide views of the opposite hills, crowded with cottages and spires, impart to the scene that peculiarly English, half stately and wholly cultivated, character which the poets of Elizabeth's day so much loved to linger upon. As is often the case with similar residences, the church stands in the park at a bow-shot from the house, and formerly the walls of the outer court nearly reached the green sanctuary that surrounds the sacred edifice. The church itself, dedicated anciently to St. Mary, is worn and grey, in the simplest architecture of ecclesiastical Gothic, and, standing on the brow of the hill, its single tower at a distance blends with the turrets of the house, so that the two seem one pile."

Address:
Knebworth House,
Knebworth,
Hertfordshire SG3 6PY
Website: www.knebworthhouse.com

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