Stanlake Manor
Introduction
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Stanlake Manor
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 14 Mar 2014
"Stanlake Park has a 17th-century Elizabethan country house at the centre of the estate. It is the manor house of Hinton Pipard. It was built by the Aldworth family, who lived there before becoming Barons Braybrooke and moving to Billingbear House. They fought for Charles I during the English Civil War and, in 1646, Richard Aldworth founded Reading Blue Coat School." source, Wikipedia. The house is private but part of the park is now a vineyard which is open for tours, and is where this view was taken. A fuller history is on the vineyard website, plus info about the wines. http://www.stanlakepark.com/pages/our-history
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Image Location
Latitude
51.471089
Longitude
-0.84745