The House, Its Owners, Its Lands brings together ten essays by local leading scholars and experts who have worked on various aspects of Stoneleigh’s history. Four chapters outline the architectural evolution of the house from a mid-twelfth-century abbey to one of Warwickshire’s grandest country seats. Three chapters are devoted to the Leigh family who were first raised to the peerage in 1643, including a chapter on Jane Austen’s links with Stoneleigh. The last three chapters cover the management and development of the estates and parks from their monastic origins to their transformation in the nineteenth century under the direction of Humphry Repton.
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