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Bramham Park
Grade I listed historic house museum in Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Bramham Park is a Grade I listed 18th-century country house in Bramham, between Leeds and Wetherby, in West Yorkshire, England. The house, constructed of magnesian limestone ashlar with stone slate roofs in a classical style, is built to a linear plan with a main range linked by colonnades to flanking pavilions.
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The main block is of three storeys with a raised forecourt. The house has a 500 acres (200 ha) landscaped park, ornamented by a series of follies and avenues laid out in the 18th-century landscape tradition, and is enclosed by 1,235 acres (500 ha) of arable farmland. Bramham Park is used annually for the Leeds Festival. The Baroque mansion was built in 1698 for Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley. It has remained in the ownership of Benson's descendants since its completion in 1710. He died with no male heirs and the barony was extinguished. The estate passed into the hands of his son-in-Law George Fox-Lane (c. 1697–1773), who was given the re-created title of Baron Bingley in 1763. His son and heir, the Honourable Robert Fox-Lane, Member of Parliament for York, predeceased him in 1768 and the barony consequently became extinct a second time on his death in 1773.
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