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{{about|the British mansion|Benjamin Chew's mansion in Germantown, Pennsylvania|Cliveden (Benjamin Chew House)}}
[[Image:Cliveden-2382.jpg|thumb|400px|View looking north from the Ring in the Parterre showing Terrace Pavilion and Clock Tower to the left with Lower Terrace and Borghese Balustrade below]]

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== Early history ==
[[Image:CliveGardenFrontVitruviusBritannicus edited.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The 1666 house. Only the arcaded terrace remains today.]]
Cliveden stands on the site of a house built in 1666 designed by architect [[William Winde]] as the home of [[George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham]]. But before Buckingham's purchase the land was owned by the Mansfield family and before that to the de Clyveden family.<ref>Crathorne, 1995, p.10.</ref> 
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The details are recorded in a document compiled by William Waldorf Astor in 1894 called "The Historical Descent of Cliveden". It shows that in 1237 the land was owned by Geoffrey de Clyveden and by 1300 it had passed to his son, William, who owned fisheries and mills along the Cliveden Reach stretch of the Thames and at nearby Hedsor. ⏎
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The document also shows that in 1569 a lodge existed on the site along with 50&nbsp;acres of land and was owned by Sir Henry Manfield and later his son, Sir Edward. In 1573 there were two lodges on 160&nbsp;acres of treeless [[chalk]] escarpement above the Thames. It was on this impressively high but exposed site that Buckingham chose to build the first Cliveden house. 
===George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham===
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