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The grounds of Blenheim Palace at Woodstock are set to feature on the big screen for Disney’s film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s story The BFG.
The Italian Garden at the stately home served as the location for a scene in The BFG film directed by Steven Spielberg and due to be released this summer.
Filming at the 18th-century palace lasted two to three days.
Other locations for the film included Banburgh Castle in Northumberland, Buckingham Palace and the Isle… (View original article)
A medieval fortress, set in 32 acres of countryside and complete with a moat and jousting field, is on sale for £800,000 in Herefordshire.
Wigmore Castle, believed to date back to the year 921, gives buyers the opportunity to purchase an important historic ruin that is under the guardianship of the Secretary of State.
For potential owners, this means they would have no responsibility for the repairs of the castle itself.
The Castle has links to the War of the Rose… (View original article)
Remembrance: The Weeping Willow sculpture at Balhousie Castle.
The Black Watch Castle and Museum/Lisa Ferguson
A waterfall of poppies have been installed at the Black Watch Castle and Museum to remember the fallen soldiers of the First World War.
The Weeping Window, which is made up of several thousand ceramic poppies, was officially unveiled at Balhousie Castle in Perth on Thursday.
The Black Watch Museum is a focal point for remembrance of the First World War… (View original article)
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Sherborne Castle has one of the finest landscaped parks in the south west, which has remained very much as Capability Brown designed it.
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth, a new exhibition is on display at the Castle, which draws on evidence from the archives to explain the sequence of events.
Brown began work in the spring of 1753, when payments are recorded for making forty wheelbarrows used in digging the lake, a reminder that the work … (View original article)
When President Obama visited Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle in July, 2009, he remarked that “it reminds us of the capacity of human beings to commit great evil.”
This castle in Cape Coast, Ghana—once known as the Gold Coast of West Africa—was one of around 40 “slave castles” that served as prisons and embarkation points for slaves en route to the Americas (the Caribbean, South America, and the U.S.). Thousands of enslaved Africans from regions near and far, sometimes hundreds of miles aw… (View original article)
A listed Perthshire mansion which bears a name familiar to generations of art students has gone on the market for offers over £1.85 million.
Jordanstone near Alyth once belonged to the Duncan family, who endowed the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, now part of the University of Dundee, which has nurtured the talents of many leading Scottish artists.
Set in 12 acres of gardens on the edge of the Vale of Strathmore, the property includes an additional four cottages, a Vi… (View original article)
The San Francisco real estate market just got a little bit bigger, with the most expensive property in the city recently joining the league of luxury estates for sale – and it can be yours for $28.5 million.
The magnificent spectacle of property, located at 2820 Scott Street in one of the nation’s most expensive cities to live in, takes the title of single most expensive home in the city from another high-end listing, the $25 million Beaux Arts mansion at 2250 Vallejo in Pacific Hei… (View original article)
Elmhurst doesn’t always come to mind when one thinks of multimillion-dollar mansions, but today Julie Woolfe of Woolfe & Co. Realtors is listing this property at 340 South Cottage Hill Avenue for an eye-popping $3.5 million, making it the most expensive home ever listed in the DuPage County suburb.
The 7,107-square-foot mansion, built in 1929, has been completely renovated in recent years by its current owner, Woolfe says. It includes four bedroom suites, two first-f… (View original article)
By Vincent Xu
Hell hath no fury like a J&J heir scorned. One of the most salacious events in Princeton’s history took place at 75 Cleveland Lane, at a historic house that recently avoided becoming the latest teardown in town.
Designed by architect Ernest Flagg, the one-acre property is encircled by a stone wall and features a 16-room stone mansion and, across the interior courtyard, a five-bay carriage house. It was previously the home to J. Seward Johnson Jr., grandson t… (View original article)
Nick and Vanessa Lachey, who listed their house for $3.995 million in April, have just dropped a lot of money a new mansion that’s bigger and better than their previous digs.
The couple have purchased a massive, 9,785-square-foot property that once belonged to the late Jenni Rivera in Encino, Calif. According to Trulia, the residence was built in 1999 and sits on four acres of prime real estate inside an exclusive gated community of just three homes.
Boasting a whopping sev… (View original article)