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Chiseldon House Hotel in Wiltshire is a building of historical significance and is listed in the National Heritage Register. It is a detached late regency villa. It was built in the early 19th Century for the Browne family and continued to be used as a private residence until 1964 when it was converted to a hotel. It is now a country house hotel and restaurant with facilities for special events particularly weddings. ==The Browne family== Chiseldon house was built in 1840by William Ruddle Browne (1787-1848). William was born in the Chiseldon area in 1787. His father was William Browne who owned a prosperous farm in the White Horse Vale. He was trained to be a farmer and in 1822 he married but unfortunately his wife died in childbirth ten years later. After this he became a land agent and steward. In 1840 he built Chiseldon House and occupied the property with his brother John Browne (1791-1853) and his wife Ann. At the end of 1840 William married a second time at the age of 53. His new wife was Ann Nicolson Lee who was 22 years his junior. The couple had three children. Two daughters and one son whose name was William Edward Nicolson Browne. He inherited the house when he was 21 years of age in about 1868. After the death of William Ruddle Brown in 1848 the other members of the Browne family continued to live there. John died in 1853. William Edward Nicholson Browne was born in 1847 a year before his father’s death. He was educated as a lawyer at Oxford University and was called to the Bar in 1871. In the same year he married Catherine Bagley of London. He lived at Chiseldon House for some years but frequently he leased the property. 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「Chiseldon House Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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