Stourhead

British  

/ ˈstaʊəˌhɛd /

noun

1. a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft

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Stourhead

The geological collections—stones and fossils; and some interesting models of Avebury and Stonehenge, and particularly the Stourhead antiquities—British and prehistoric—should on no account be missed.

From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes

Sir Richard died at Stourhead, Wiltshire, on the 19th of May 1838, being succeeded in the baronetcy by his half-brother, Henry Hugh Hoare.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

M.S.S. dated 1703, of the Phillips Stourhead Collection, No. 22244.

From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack

Three holes on each side of the monument represented the sources of the Stour at Stourhead, and these figured in the armorial bearings of the family.

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor

Walpole names Theobalds and Nonsuch as famous examples of the old formal style of garden; Stourhead, Hagley, and Stowe—the country seat of Lyttelton's brother-in-law, Lord Cobham—of the new.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers