Burghley
Americannoun
noun
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Sometimes, such a find comes with a mystery: How the heck did the woman make her way from Burghley House, a stately home near Peterborough, England, to a shallow grave 300 yards away?
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024
Ella Benson Roberts is a biracial white and black Caribbean student at Acland Burghley school in north-west London.
From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2017
If you have been to some of the great palaces of the British aristocracy — Blenheim, Chatsworth or Burghley House — you have seen Brown’s work.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2016
It was only when she was in her early 50s, Mr Guy thinks, that Elizabeth at last asserted supreme power over Burghley.
From Economist • Apr. 28, 2016
For more than twenty years he also acted as superintendent of the gardens in London and at Theobalds, in Hertfordshire, of William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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