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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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===Maze===
The original Cliveden [[maze]], commissioned by Lord Astor in 1894, is undergoing restoration, after having lain overgrown and inaccessible since the 1950s, with a view to opening it to the public in 2011.<ref>[http://maidenheadadvertiser.co.uk/m/leisure/article-10205-new-maze-for-cliveden/   Maidenhead Advertiser website. Last accessed 12/03/10]</ref> It will be replanted with 1,100 six-foot-tall [[Taxus baccata|yew]] trees.


===Temples, pavilions and follies===⏎
[[Image:Cliveden-2365.jpg|thumb|left|Giacomo Leoni's 1735 "Temple"]] ⏎
===Temples, pavilions and follies===
The earliest known garden buildings at Cliveden were both designed by Giacomo Leoni for Lord Orkney; the Blenheim Pavilion (c.1727) was built to commemorate Orkney's victory as a general at the [[Battle of Blenheim]]. The Octagon Temple, situated two-hundred feet above the Thames, was originally designed as a [[gazebo]] and [[grotto]] but was later converted by the 1st Lord Astor to become the family [[chapel]]. Its interior and dome are decorated with colourful [[mosaics]] by Clayton and Bell represe(contracted; show full)[[Category:Historic house museums in Buckinghamshire]]

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