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Camelot is a large brick home near the town of Camden, New South Wales, situated approximately fifty kilometres south-west of Sydney, Australia. It was built in 1888 and has been used as a television location. It is heritage-listed at state and federal levels.〔(State Heritage Register )〕〔The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company (1981) p.2/17〕 ==History== ''Camelot'' is located in the suburb of Kirkham, just outside Camden. This area was originally home to the Muringong, southernmost of the Darug people. In 1805 John Macarthur established his property at Camden where he raised merino sheep. In 1810, explorer John Oxley was granted nearby, which he named ''Kirkham'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The History of Camden )〕 after his birthplace in Yorkshire. Oxley died at ''Kirkham'' in 1828. The house was demolished in 1882; the stables, which date from 1816, are all that remain. They are heritage-listed. ''Camelot'' was designed by the Canadian-born architect John Horbury Hunt for James White, New South Wales politician and great-uncle of Patrick White. It was built circa 1888, on the site of Oxley's old Kirkham Mill, and partly on its foundations. Folklore has it that the house was financed by the winnings from one of James White's horses, called Chester, who won the Melbourne Cup in 1877.〔(Camden History.org )〕 It was originally called ''Kirkham'', but the name was changed to ''Camelot'' by a new owner, Frances Faithful-Anderson, wife of William Anderson, who bought the house in the 1890s. When she saw the house, she was reminded of lines in Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shallot, which make a reference to Camelot.〔(A Place to Call Home )〕 ''Camelot'' was used extensively as a location in the 2013 television series A Place to Call Home, in which it is known as ''Ash Park''. It was also used in the 2008 Baz Luhrmann film ''Australia''.〔(Dictionary of Sydney )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camelot, Kirkham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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