Country Houses and their Gardens

A Country Home is usually defined as a large home, built on farmland, which has more than 25 rooms and was built before the First World War. The landowner tended to be Gentry, and owned over a thousand acres of land.

Country Houses were built as a “modern” castle, designed to flaunt ones wealth. The houses tended to be found away from other houses, and in the middle of the countryside. These were the first mansions in the UK.

Some Country Houses are referred to as Stately Homes, but this is just a tourist word devised to attract people to these “old” mansions.

During the 19th century, Country Homes were extremely important to country life, the mansions provided many jobs for the surrounding area, which made sure many British people were kept above the bread line. In the mid 1800’s, Country Houses became the grounds used by many of the classes for sports such as hunting, relaxing and a “tourist” attraction, even back then.

At the start of the First World War, Country Homes started to disappear: many of the houses were used as hospitals, schools, universities, prisons and hotels.

Many Country Houses still survive today, such as Chatsworth House and Holkham Hall.

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