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Charborough House, also known as Charborough Park, is a Grade I listed building and rural estate between the villages of Sturminster Marshall and Bere Regis in Dorset, England. The grounds, which include a deer park and gardens, adjoin the villages of Winterborne Zelston, Newton Peveril and Lytchett Matravers: they are Grade II * listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and have been called the most splendid parkland in Dorset. The estate has been owned by the same family since Elizabethan times and is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, commissioned by William I of England.〔(Charborough House - Domesday Book )〕 The quadruple-barrelled surname of the owners is now Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, the Earles/Erles having arrived in Dorset from east Devon ''circa'' 1500, and continued via several female lines. The present occupant is Richard Drax, the Conservative Member of Parliament for South Dorset since 2010.〔(Biography from Great British Life )〕 The current house is in the centre of the park and incorporates parts of the original house built by Sir Walter Erle (1586–1665), the governor of Dorchester and parliamentarian commander, whose forces besieged Corfe Castle in 1646; stone and timber were taken from Corfe and used in the house's construction. In 1686, a group of conspirators met at Charborough House to plan the overthrow of "the tyrant race of Stuarts", hosted by Thomas Erle, Member of Parliament for Wareham since 1678 and a Deputy Lieutenant for Dorset since 1685. The meeting was effectively the start of the build-up to the Invitation to William, signed by the ''Immortal Seven'', which resulted in the Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, and the overthrow of James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (Prince William of Orange). ==Church of St Mary== St Mary's Church next to Charborough House is in the Gothic Revival style and is Grade II * listed by Historic England; the listing being specifically for its furnishings. It was built by Thomas Erle Drax in 1775 and transformed in 1837 by John Sawbridge Erle-Drax who had married Sarah Frances Erle-Drax,〔(www.historyofparliamentonline.org )〕 heiress to Charborough, in 1826 and assumed her surname and arms; it is now used only as the burial place of the Drax family. Above the door of a small arched building nearby is an inscription, dated 1686, commemorating the meeting of the "patriotic individuals who concerted the plan of the Revolution in 1688". 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「Charborough House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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