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Portal:Cliveden
{{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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The National Trust tour only includes the Great Hall and French Dining Room.

==Cliveden Hotel==
[[Image:Cliveden, June 2005.JPG|thumb|right|Cliveden Hotel from the 
Pparterre]]
In 1984 a hotel company &ndash; Blakeney Hotels (later Cliveden Hotel Ltd) &ndash; acquired the lease to the house. Led by chairman John Lewis and managing director John Tham (husband of ''[[Railway Children]]'' actress [[Jenny Agutter]]) they restored and refurbished the interior.<ref name='Crathorne202'>{{Harvnb|Crathorne|1995|p=202}}</ref> Rooms are furnished with Edwardian antiques and the house is run in a similar style as it would have been w(contracted; show full)

The hotel's insignia is that of the Sutherland family and consists of a [[coronet]] with interlaced "S"s and [[acanthus]] leaves. It can be found on radiator grills in parts of the house.<ref name='NT85'>{{Harvnb|National Trust|1994|p=85}}</ref> The hotel's motto is "Nothing ordinary ever happened here, nor could it."<ref name=Cliveden/>

==Gardens and grounds==
[[
ImagFile:Cliveden Pparterre.jpg, central, from terrace.jpg|300px|thumb|left|The Pparterre from the terrace]]
The estate extends to {{convert|375|acre|km2}} of which about {{convert|180|acre|km2}} comprise the gardens, the rest being [[woodland]] and paddocks.  ⏎
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The formal [[parterre]] to the South of the house is one of the largest in Europe at {{convert|4|acre|m2}}.<ref name='Llewellyn123'>{{Harvnb|Llewellyn|1989|p=123}}</ref> It consists of clipped [[yew]] pyramids and wedge-shaped beds edged with box hedging and filled with [[catnip]] and seasonal planting.  The Long Garden  consists of [[topiary]] in the form of corkscrew-spirals, peacocks and box hedges and was designed by [[Norah Lindsay]] in c.1900.  The Water Garden was laid out by the [[John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever|1st Lord Astor]] in c.1900 and features a [[pagoda]], on an island, bought from the [[Chateau de Bagatelle|Bagatelle]] estate in [[Paris]]. The planting there is mostly Spring-flowering: [[cherry tree]]s, bush [[wisteria]]s and giant [[gunnera]]s. The original Rose Garden, designed by Sir [[Geoffrey Jellicoe]] for the Astor family in the early 1960s has since suffered from rose disease and has been replanted as a "Secret" garden of herbaceous plants. The planting in the [[herbaceous border]]s in the forecourt was designed in the 1970s by the National Trust advisor [[Graham Stuart Thomas]]. The West-facing border features "hot"-coloured flowers (red, yellow, orange) and the East-facing border is planted with "cooler" colours (blue, pink and white).  ⏎
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There is a lime tree avenue either side of the main drive to the house. Cliveden holds part of the [[NCCPG National Plant Collection|National Plant Collection]] of [[Catalpa]].<ref name='NT76'>{{Harvnb|National Trust|1994|p=76}}</ref> In 1897 the 1st Lord Astor imported a section of a [[Californian redwood]] and had it installed in the woods. At {{convert|16|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} across it is the largest section of a [[Sequoia gigantea]] in Britain.<ref name='NT77'>{{Harv(contracted; show full)[[Category:Historic house museums in Buckinghamshire]]

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