Historic houses · South East England
Kingston Lisle Park
In or near Compton Beauchamp.
Kingston Lisle Park — country house in Oxfordshire, England.
Brian Robert Marshall — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Kingston Lisle Park is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Built in the Georgian architecture style. Wikidata describes it as: "country house in Oxfordshire, England". Coordinates: 51.5854°, -1.5302°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cotswolds
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: North Wessex Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Kingston Lisle Park is a Grade II* listed Georgian country house and estate in Kingston Lisle, near Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. The house dates from the 17th century and is surrounded by an estate of more than 1,000 acres of woods, farmland and gardens.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
There was a village on the site since at least the Middle Ages; the Domesday Book recorded 31 households in 1086. There was a manor house on the site during the 13th century. In 1336, Alice de Lisle (granddaughter of Henry I FitzGerold) had a licence to impark 200 acres of woods and 100 acres of land, and the estate became the seat for the Barony of Lisle for two centuries. In 1538, the estate was sold to William Hyde of Denchworth. Sir George Hyde likely built a Jacobean mansion on the site. Some Jacobean elements remain on different buildings on the estate. The mansion was sold to Abraham Atkins in 1749. Edwin Martin-Atkins (1778–1825) commissioned architect Richard Pace to add the wings…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.5854, -1.5302
- County
- Oxfordshire
- District
- Vale of White Horse
- Parish
- Kingston Lisle
- Postcode
- OX12 9QG
- Parliamentary constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
Sources
- wikidata: Q18160459 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Kingston Lisle Park (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kingston Lisle Park?
- Kingston Lisle Park is in Oxfordshire, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode OX12 9QG), in the parish of Kingston Lisle.
- What is Kingston Lisle Park?
- Kingston Lisle Park — country house in Oxfordshire, England.
- How do I get to Kingston Lisle Park?
- Drivers can use postcode OX12 9QG.
- Who owns Kingston Lisle Park?
- Kingston Lisle Park is owned by J C DeCaux.
- Is Kingston Lisle Park a protected site?
- Yes — Kingston Lisle Park is part of the Cotswolds National Landscape (AONB) and the North Wessex Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Kingston Lisle Park?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode OX12 9QG. It sits within the Didcot and Wantage parliamentary constituency.