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The layout of Woburn before partial demolition. Building 'C' was demolished, and the upper half of building 'A' (the east part of the main western building) as well. Following World War II , dry rot was discovered and half the Abbey was subsequently demolished.
Under this law the Duke of Bedford was fined for demolishing half of Woburn Abbey without notification, although it is inconceivable that the duke would have been able to demolish half of the huge house (much of it visible from a public highway) without attracting public attention until the demolition was complete.
Woburn Abbey, seat of the dukes of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Eng., with a house that was rebuilt from a medieval Cistercian abbey by Henry Flitcroft (in 1747–61) and Henry Holland (in 1787–88). Its approximately 3,000-acre (1,000-hectare) park is the home of a magnificent collection of rare
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1 de mar. de 2013 · The story of Woburn is the story of the Russell family. John Russell was given Woburn Abbey in 1547 in recognition of his services to Henry VIII, some nine years after the original abbey was dissolved. Three years later, he was made the 1st Earl of Bedford. A soldier and a diplomat, Russell navigated the treacherous waters of Tudor politics ...
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10 There is plenty of evidence that Francis Russell and his family were in residence at Woburn Abbey from 1621 at the latest. Gladys Scott Thomson mistakenly assumed that they had borrowed Woburn from Russell’s cousin, the third earl, when they were actually returning home to Woburn in 1625 from Corney House (their residence at Chiswick); Thomson, Gladys Scott, Life in a Noble Household ...
A prolonged search has recently been undertaken by the present writer with the permission and encouragement of the Duke of Bedford with the object, in the first place, of locating if possible the records of the Cistercian abbey of Woburn and, in the second, of ascertaining what material hitherto unused, or partly unused, exists in the Public Record Office and elsewhere concerning the history ...
