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Petworth House

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Petworth House [ˈpɛtwɜːθ]
n
(Placenames / Named Buildings) a mansion in Petworth in Sussex: rebuilt (1688-96) for Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset; gardens laid out by Capability Brown; subject of paintings by Turner


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It has many historical buildings such as Barnham Windmill, High Salvington windmill, Shipley Windmill, Cobnor House the Home to the Beale Family who were all the time involved with Chichester Harbour, Uppark, Goodwood House and Goodwood Motor Circuit, Petworth House, Arundel Castle, Standen, East Grinstead, Sackville College, a Jacobean almshouse in East Grinstead, Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead a home of the McIndoe burns centre.
His father, a retired colonel, came from a grand family (he was connected to the Wyndhams who owned Petworth House in Sussex, though I'm not sure exactly how) and was much older than his mother, with the result that everything is 'a bit lopsided in my family'.
She was born in Petworth House, Sussex, where her mother Margaret, a laundry maid from Redcar, worked, while her father Joseph Stedman was a clockmaker and jeweller.
 
 
 
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