Ditchley Park
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Ditchley Park is a country house near Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England. The estate was once the site of a Roman villa. Later it became a royal hunting ground, and then the property of Sir Henry Lee o
Ditchley, Oxfordshire c. 1818
The house and flanking pavilions.
Ditchley House, side view, 1880
Chartwell
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Chartwell is a country house near Westerham, Kent, in South East England. For over forty years, it was the home of Sir Winston Churchill. He bought the property in September 1922 and lived there until
View of Chartwell from the north-east
Chartwell – Clementine Churchill's "magnificent aerial bower" to the left
Chartwell was the base from which Churchill waged his campaign against Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement
German Panzers at Tobruk, June 1941. Closed up during the war, Chartwell remained Churchill's bolthole at times of crisis