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Aston Clinton House

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then acquired the property with the proviso that it be used for educational purposes. Today the estate is used as a residential training centre for young people, operated by Kingswood Learning and Leisure Group. The original ornamental features of the extended garden still remain, incorporated into
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and one heavy battery received their advanced training in the grounds of Aston Clinton House in the spring and summer of 1915, including extensive gas offensive and defensive training. Final inspection of the division by
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and Annie, The Hon. Mrs. Eliot Yorke, who shared it as a holiday home, spending a few weeks together there each summer. They developed horticulture in the gardens which became full of rare plants.
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the site now called Green Park. All that remain of the buildings of the estate are the stables, used as part of the training centre, and the lodge in Stablebridge Road.
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house with verandahs and a large porte-cochère. Many workers' cottages were built, and two schools and a village hall set up under Rothschild patronage.
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designed the cottages and the park gates (he later transformed another Rothschild property,
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In 1923, the Rothschilds sold the house to Dr Albert Edward Bredin Crawford for £15,000.
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occurred in August 1915 and the move to France took place from 2 to 13 September 1915.
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the house was the Green Park Hotel, but during the War the stables were used by
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but in 1915 on the Halton and Aston Clinton estates. Four brigades of
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in 1910, the house was bequeathed to her two daughters,
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Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain
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British country houses destroyed in the 20th century
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51°47′42″N 0°42′58″W / 51.79500°N 0.71611°W / 51.79500; -0.71611
George Myers
George Devey

Rothschild family
Aston Clinton
Buckinghamshire
Anthony Nathan de Rothschild
Aylesbury
George Myers
George Devey
Ascott House
neo-Georgian
Italianate
Louise de Rothschild
Constance, Lady Battersea
Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
First World War
Halton House
War Office
Kitchener's Army
Tring
field artillery
Lord Kitchener
Second World War
EKCO
Southend-on-Sea
Buckinghamshire County Council
Rothschild properties in England

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