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Belvoir Castle

British  
/ ˈbiːvə /

noun

  1. a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816

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The duchess also spends time hosting a podcast, has presented television programmes including ITV's Castles, Keeps and Country Homes and produced a book about Belvoir Castle.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2022

Between 2003 and 2015, he was private secretary to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, a 16,000-acre site of farmland and woodland in Leicestershire.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2016

One was destroyed in a fire at Belvoir Castle in the 19th century, and another was sold to the National Gallery in Washington in the early 20th century.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2012

For more than 200 years the Poussin “Sacraments” hung in Belvoir Castle, the ancestral pile of the Duke of Rutland.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2011

One of the most striking examples I have met with of the importance of having a situation such as is described is the Duchess' garden at Belvoir Castle.

From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Cook, Ernest Thomas