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West Wycombe House and its 5000 acre estate is the home of the Dashwood family and has been since 1698.

The house is still substantially as this Sir Francis left it, drawing inspiration from his Grand Tour through Europe in his youth, he created an exquisite Palladian villa that with its porticoes and colonnades would be equally comfortable set in either Italy or Greece.

The grounds at West Wycombe Park are among the finest and most unique 18th Century gardens surviving in England today. 

The park is a perfectly preserved rococo landscape garden, complete with statues, temples which are consistent in their use of Classical Architecture from both Greece and Italy. 

Main features of the grounds at West Wycombe are relics of the artificial Rocco style, offering an enticing mixture of water and solid ground which provide straight avenues, serpentine streams and winding paths in the woods.

There is great access and West Wycombe is located under an hour from London.

 

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