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Encombe House is a privately owned, Grade II * listed country house built in 1735 on the Encombe Estate near the village of Kingston and about a mile inland of Dorset's Jurassic Coast in southern England. == History == The estate was given in A.D. 948 to the Abbess of Shaftesbury by King Eadred and probably remained in the possession of Shaftesbury Abbey during the Middle Ages until Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries.〔(''Kingston (near Corfe Castle)'' ) at www.kingstonopc.org.uk. Retrieved 25 Dec 2014〕 The family only prevented Oliver Cromwell from seizing the property by providing men to help slight nearby Corfe Castle in 1645.〔 In 1552, the estate was acquired by Robert Culliford and it remained in the Culliford family until 1734 when William Culliford, who had run into debt, sold the house to George Pitt of Stratfield Saye in Hampshire.〔(''Encombe'' ) at english-heritage.org.uk. Retrieved 25 Dec 2014〕 The estate was inherited by his second son, John Pitt, a second cousin of William Pitt the Elder, prime minister and first Earl of Chatham.〔 He pulled down the first house and built a new one that incorporated elements of the original building.〔〔 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「Encombe House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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