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Harlington Manor is a grade II * listed manor house in Harlington, Bedfordshire.〔http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-38035-harlington-manor-harlington/〕 The house abuts, and has views over, Bury Orchard, the village common, which itself abuts the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. ==History== English Heritage, in their listing notice, ascribe Harlington Manor to the 16th century, though it has been suggested that the house dates, in fact, to 1396.〔http://www.usask.ca/english/barbauld/related_texts/memoir.html〕 The house was owned by the Burwell Family of Virginia, from around 1500, but it passed, through intermarriage, to the Wingate family in the early 17th Century. It was, the listing notice claims, owned by Edmund Wingate, mathematician and tutor to Queen Henrietta Maria.〔 Famously, John Bunyan, the English divine, was interrogated by Sir Francis Wingate and briefly imprisoned in the house, in November 1660. Bunyan was sent to Bedford gaol where, over the next 12 years, he wrote ''The Pilgrim's Progress''. It is thought that Harlington Manor is the only building, still standing, at which Bunyan is known to have stayed. Charles II is said to have stayed briefly at the house in late 1660, apparently to thank Sir Francis Wingate for his help in dealing with the potential sedition of John Bunyan.〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42450/〕 Harlington Manor was formerly known as Harlington House, its name being changed at some point towards the end of the 19th century. 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「Harlington Manor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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