Biddlesden Park

Country house in Biddlesden, Buckinghamshire, England

The lake at Biddlesden Park

Biddlesden Park is a country house at Biddlesden in north-west Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

## History[edit]

The house, which lies on the site of an old Cistercian abbey, was built by John Sayer, in the Georgian style in 1727.[1] The staircase dates from the same period.[2] The house then passed to Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney before it was acquired, on Verney's death in 1791, by George Morgan, who was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire.[3] The house remained in the ownership of the Morgan and then the Morgan-Grenville family for most of the 19th century.[4] It was bought by Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Badger in around 1932 and then remained in the Badger family for many years before passing to Mrs. Elizabeth Maud Gordon.[5] It was then comprehensively renovated in the 1980s.[1]

The church of St Margaret of Scotland is situated in the grounds of Biddlesden Park.[6]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "New sporting estates on the market". Country Life. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
2. ^ "Biddlesden Park". Buckingham County Council. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
3. ^ "Biddlesden". Open University. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
4. ^ "Lady Mary Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville later Morgan later Morgan-Grenville". Cracrofts Peerage. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
5. ^ "At the Court at Buckingham Palace" (PDF). Church Society. 26 July 1977. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
6. ^ "Biddlesden". A church near you. Retrieved 4 July 2015.

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