Clarendon Park, Wiltshire

Entrance gate to Clarendon Park

Clarendon Park, Wiltshire is a Grade I listed building, estate and civil parish near Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. At the 2011 census the population of the parish was 246.[1]

History

The house was completed in 1737 for Peter Bathurst, MP for Salisbury.[2] It was remodelled internally between 1814 and 1920[2] and, after having been passed down the Hervey-Bathurst family, was bought by the Christie-Miller family around 1920.[3] The house was the setting for the chandelier sequence in an episode of the television series Only Fools and Horses entitled a Touch of Glass and first screened in 1982.[3] The house was bought by Marc Jonas and his wife in 2006.[4]

See also

Clarendon Palace is a medieval ruin within the parish.

References

  1. ↑ "Wiltshire Community History - Census". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Clarendon Park, Wiltshire". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Batten, Roland (30 June 2006). "Young couple snap up Clarendon 'for £30m'". Salisbury Journal. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  4. ↑ Chittenden, Maurice; Iredale, Will (5 November 2006). "City squires snap up farms". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 3 June 2014.

Coordinates: 51°03′20″N 1°43′22″W / 51.0555°N 1.7227°W