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Frogmore. / 51.4743; -0.5944. Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. It comprises 33 acres (130,000 m 2 ), of primarily private gardens managed by the Crown Estate. It is the location of Frogmore House, a royal retreat, and Frogmore Cottage.
13 de sept. de 2022 · The gardens include a mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Getting to Frogmore House. The nearest National Rail stations to Frogmore House are Windsor and Eton Central (change at Slough from London Paddington) and Windsor and Eton Riverside (direct service from London Waterloo). Frogmore House is a 20-30 minute walk from Windsor town ...
About Frogmore House. Frogmore House, so named due to the large number of frogs in the area originally, stood on the estates of Great and Little Frogmore, which were bought by Henry VIII in the 16th-century. Hugh May, Charles II's architect at Windsor, built the house for his nephew Thomas May and his wife Anne Aldworth, since its completion in ...
Frogmore House. A favourite royal retreat for more than 300 years. Frogmore House is currently closed to visitors. Standing in the Home Park of Windsor Castle, the gardens at Frogmore House have been an enduring attraction for monarchs and their families since the house was purchased by Queen Charlotte in 1790.
The area occupies the site of the orchard added to the Home Park in the 1670s (Roberts 1997, pl 149) and the kitchen garden of the C17 former Ranger's Lodge (fragments of this building seemingly incorporated within the Dairy House of the Prince Consort's Home Farm in the mid C19; Roberts 1997, 159) which lay c 150m east of Frogmore House and had its own formal gardens and Wilderness in the ...
A la muerte de la reina en 1818, Frogmore House pasó a su hija mayor, la princesa Augusta. Después de la muerte de la princesa en 1840, la reina Victoria la cedió a su madre, la duquesa de Kent. La duquesa murió allí en 1861. Entre 1866 y 1873, la residencia fue hogar de la princesa Helena, tercera hija de la reina Victoria, y su esposo ...
The creation of the gardens at Frogmore House in the Home Park at Windsor Castle played a central part in Queen Charlotte’s activities there after its purchase in 1792. Since that time, the gardens have been used both as a royal retreat and as a venue for entertainments.
