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The parterre at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire

Cliveden

Cliveden is an Italianate mansion and estate at Taplow in Buckinghamshire. Set on banks 130 feet above the River Thames, its grounds slope down to the river. The site has been home to an Earl, three Countesses, two Dukes, a Prince of Wales and the Viscounts Astor.

As home of Nancy Astor, the house was the meeting place of the Cliveden set of the 1920s and 1930s. (Read more)