Cliveden
Cliveden [ ˈklɪvdən ] is an "Italian" style mansion and country estate in Taplow , Buckinghamshire , England . It is on the bank 40 meters above the Thames . The building was inhabited by a count, three countesses, two dukes, a crown prince and finally the barons of Astor .
It is the third house at this point: the first from 1666 burned down in 1795, and the second from 1824 was also destroyed by fire in 1849. The current listed building was built in 1851 by the architect Charles Barry for George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland in the Italian style. In 1893 William Waldorf Astor bought the house. He imported the terrace of the Villa Borghese in Rome and had it installed below the terrace in the park. In 1906 he gave Cliveden to his son Waldorf Astor and his wife for their wedding and moved to Hever Castle in Kent. As the residence of Nancy Astor , the building was the meeting point of the Cliveden Set , a group of political intellectuals of the 1920s and 1930s.
During the 1960s, it became the scene for key events in the Profumo affair . During the 1970s, it was used as an overseas campus by Stanford University of California. Today it belongs to the National Trust and is rented out by them to a 5-star hotel, but can be visited on guided tours. The Bavin's Gulls islands in the Thames are also part of the property .
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- ↑ Janet Waymark 2003. Modern garden design. Innovation since 1900. London, Thames and Hudson, 11
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 30.6 ″ N , 0 ° 41 ′ 17.6 ″ W.