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Ascott Garden (National Trust), Wing, Buckinghamshire, England, Great Britain - April 2023

Ascott is a hamlet and country house near the hamlet of Wing, Buckinghamshire, Southern England. Before the Norman Conquest there was an abbey at Ascott, that had been given by a royal to a Benedictine convent in Angiers. In 1415 however, the same year as the Battle of Agincourt, the convent was seized by the English church because it belonged to the French and awarded to the Convent of St Mary du Pre, near St Albans. In the early 16th century the abbey was seized by the Crown and given to Cardinal Wolsey, however not long after it was seized once again in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and given to Robert Dormer. In 1554 William Dormer entertained Princess Elizabeth at the house, when she was on the road to London under arrest as a Protestant because her sister Mary had just taken the throne. Anne of Denmark, and James VI and I were also entertained at Ascott by Anne, Lady Dormer, in 1620. The former abbey, now a house but this house fell into disrepair following the death without heirs of Charles Dormer in 1709. In 1727 the house and estate were broken up, the deer sold and all the timber cut down and sold off. In the late 19th century members of the Rothschild banking family began to acquire estates in the area, including Ascott. In 1873 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house. Nowadays the property known as Ascott House or sometimes known more simply as just "Ascott" is administered by the National Trust and it houses a fine art collection. This video shows the park and garden and the music is an English folk tune and fiddled dance by Percy Fletcher.