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Deene Park, the seat of the Brudenell family since 1514, is a country manor located 5 miles north-east of Corby in the county of Northamptonshire, England. The hall itself is a Grade I listed building
Bridge at Deene Park geograph.org.uk 3477423
Deene Park from the south-east
Gloomy view of the entrance gates
Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan was a British Army officer who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, leading its disastrous charge at the Battle of Balacl
Deene Park
…modified several times since then to create the current structure. Seven of the Brudenell family were Earls of Cardigan – the most notable being the 7th Earl who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava (1854). The 7th Earl died childless in 1868, and while the Earldom of Cardigan merged…
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c. 1841 portrait of Brudenell by Francis Grant
1894 painting of the Charge of the Light Brigade