Quarrendon
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Quarrendon or Quarrendon Leas is a medieval English village near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, which has been depopulated since the 16th century and is now a scheduled monument.
Ruins of St Peter's parish church
Henry Lee of Ditchley
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Sir Henry Lee KG, of Ditchley, was Queen's Champion and Master of the Armouries under Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Quarrendon
…Richard Lee's son, and he had a new moated house and garden built on the site, the moat survives and is still partially flooded. Sir Robert's grandson, Sir Henry Lee created an elaborate series of gardens delineated by canals and banks after he inherited Quarrendon in 1549. Sir Henry replaced parts of the deserted…
Sir Henry Lee by Antonis Mor, 1568
Margaret Wyatt, by Hans Holbein
Ditchley Portrait of Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts
Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts