Ashdown House, Oxfordshire

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Ashdown House, viewed from the west
Ashdown House, viewed from the west

Ashdown House (also known as Ashdown Park) is a 17th century house in the civil parish of Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire. Until 1974 the house was in the county of Berkshire, and the nearby village of Lambourn remains in that county.

Ashdown House is famous for its associations with Elizabeth of Bohemia, the sister of Charles I. Along with his house at Hamstead Marshall, it is said that the Earl of Craven built Ashdown for her, but she died before construction began.[1]

Ashdown House has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1956. The house is tenanted, and public access is restricted to the roof, which has spectacular views, and to the neighbouring Ashdown Woods.[2][3]

Nearby are a large group of sarsen stones and Alfred's Castle, an Iron Age hill fort.

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  1. ^ Berkshire History : Ashdown Park. Nash Ford Publishing (2002). Retrieved on 2008-02-22.
  2. ^ Ashdown House : Facilities. National Trust. Retrieved on 2008-02-22.
  3. ^ Ashdown House : What to see & do. National Trust. Retrieved on 2008-02-22.

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Coordinates: 51.53621° N 1.59626° W

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