Burghley
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
"Burghley," wrote Leicester, at the height of his arrogant power, "could do more with her in an hour than others in seven years."
From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de
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