Burghley House

British

/ bɜːlI /

noun

an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials

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Burghley House, an Elizabethan mansion near Peterborough, lies on the border between Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

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

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

This has a more complicated array of towers and spikes; this is genuine Elizabethan – Burghley House in Lincolnshire.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013

He would go to "Burghley House by Stamford Town," and fill his place on the roll of the Earls of Exeter.

From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Hall, Thornton

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