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    Godmersham Park is a Grade I listed house in Godmersham in the English county of Kent. The house is on the edge of the North Downs between Ashford and...
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    Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village straddles the Great Stour river where it cuts through the...
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  • Knight's family at Godmersham Park and became a close friend of Edward's sister, the writer Jane Austen. While at Godmersham Park, Anne Sharp taught Jane...
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  • wealthy but childless Knight family, and inherited their property of Godmersham Park. Fanny was the eldest of Edward and Elizabeth's eleven children. As...
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    before leaving the city in June 1805 for a family visit to Steventon and Godmersham. They moved for the autumn months to the newly fashionable seaside resort...
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    Edward Austen Knight (category People from Godmersham)
    died in 1794 he left the Godmersham Park estate to his wife for her life, with the remainder going to Edward. She left Godmersham before her death to move...
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  • to her" – from a drawing by Isabel Bishop (1902–1988). An image of Godmersham Park, the home of Edward Austen Knight, Jane Austen's brother. Jane Austen...
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    Chawton House (category Grade II listed parks and gardens in Hampshire)
    himself resided at Godmersham Park, but his son, Edward Knight II, moved to Chawton House following his marriage, and sold Godmersham Park following his father's...
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  • (equivalent to £1,565,539 in 2023). At the sale of the contents of Godmersham Park in June 1983 Ward-Jackson paid £144,400 for a Gothic tapestry (equivalent...
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    Elizabeth II and Elizabeth College, St Peter Port on the front and Saumarez Park, Les Niaux Watermill, Le Trepied Dolmen on the back £20 note, pink, Queen...
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    century, the manor came into the ownership of Thomas Brodnax or May of Godmersham Park, Kent. May changed his name to Knight after inheriting estates from...
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    Pride and Prejudice, an illustration of Elizabeth Bennet and a view of Godmersham Park in Kent. The previous £10 note, featuring Charles Darwin, was withdrawn...
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  • Thomas Knight (MP for Canterbury) (category People from Godmersham)
    previously Thomas Brodnax (1701–1726) and Thomas May (1727–1738), of Godmersham Park, Kent, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the...
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    Thomas and Elizabeth Knight and eventually inherited their estates at Godmersham, Kent, and Chawton, Hampshire. In 1801, Rev. Austen retired from the ministry...
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    Ditchley Park Faringdon Castle Fort Belvedere Gleneagles Hotel Godmersham Park Kelmarsh Hall Mells Manor Port Lympne Rhodes House Trent Park Overseas;...
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  • 1800: John Larking, of East Malling 12 February 1801: Edward Austen, of Godmersham 3 February 1802: Thomas Godfrey, of Ash 3 February 1803: Christopher Cooke...
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  • The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, created in 1983, is administered by Historic England. It includes...
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  • Thomas Knight (MP for Kent) (category People from Godmersham)
    to his father's estates in 1781, and greatly improved the seat and park of Godmersham. Knight died aged 59. Knight married Catherine Knatchbull, daughter...
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  • depth-charged and sank submarine UB-103. Two sub-stations were used: at Godmersham Park north of Wye, and Wittersham south of Tenterden. The sites were used...
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    opposite the Hallfield Estate. ABDO College was established at Godmersham Park, Godmersham, Kent, in 2001, on the A28. Also based at the ABDO's headquarters...
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  • Godmersham Park, courtyards, walled gardens and gateways...
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    23, 1983), remarried on November 4, 1935, Arthur Robert Tritton, of Godmersham Park. Watkin, A. E.; Clark, Christine (2004). "Baron, Bernhard". Oxford...
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    Lady Elizabeth at Eastwell Park numerous times, they were neighbors as Jane's older brother, Edward resided at Godmersham four miles away. George was...
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  • Green • Crundale • Eastwell • Ebony • Egerton • Finberry • Godinton • Godmersham • Great Chart • Hamstreet • Hastingleigh • High Halden • Hinxhill • Hothfield...
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  • brother, Edward, had inherited similarly entailed estates at Chawton, Godmersham and Winchester from distant cousins under the will of Elizabeth Knight...
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    Aluph Brabourne Brook Challock Charing Chilham Crundale Eastwell Egerton Godmersham Great Chart with Singleton Hastingleigh High Halden Hothfield Kenardington...
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    Rowling house on the estate for several years before moving to nearby Godmersham and Jane was a regular guest at Goodnestone. It was after staying at Rowling...
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  • volume III, page 124. "Austen's letters: 89, 23-24, Thurs-Fri. Sept 1813, Godmersham to Chawton". Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two. 8 December 2012....
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    Wye railway station was open by April 1846. A station was planned at Godmersham but then cancelled. The extension to Ramsgate opened on 13 April, with...
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    church, Wootton, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1865 St Lawrence's Church, Godmersham, Kent: restoration, 1865 St Augustine's, Queen's Gate, London, 1865 St...
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