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The Grove is a large hotel in Hertfordshire, England, with its own 300–acre (1.2 km²) private park next to the River Gade and the Grand Union Canal. It touches on its north-west corner the M25 motorway and remains a small part in Watford (St Luke) (). Since 2006 it has hosted the WGC-American Express Championship, the G20 London summit and the 2013 Bilderberg Conference. It was remodelled by various architects including Surveyor of the King's Works, Robert Taylor on the site of a medieval manor house as a home for the Earls of Clarendon, second creation, the Villiers family who downsized their estates to one they have long held at Swanmore, Hampshire following the 1914 increase of estate duty. It is on the green buffers of three settlements. Most of the land and all of the mansion itself, which has been altered and extended four times since its Georgian construction, is in Sarratt secularly, Langleybury ecclesiastically and Rickmansworth in terms of its post town. Its south facing main entrance front features in its Grade II * (mid category) listing as a "2:3:2, main range articulated by Giant Roman Doric pilasters...To () centre a larger round-headed sash with apron panel and key blocked surround in an aedicular frame with pediment rising above 20th century stone coped parapet. Cross axial stacks."〔 The Grove - Grade II * architectural (mid-category) listing.〕 == The hotel == The estate was sold in 1996 to Ralph Trustees Ltd, which extended the mansion and converted it to a hotel. Jeremy Blake, an architect with listed buildings and sustainability expertise, was appointed to undertake these works. The Grove is a former AA Hotel of the Year and was voted the UK’s Favourite Leisure Hotel by ''Condé Nast Traveler'' readers in 2008. It has 227 rooms, three restaurants, three bars and private rooms for parties, meetings and events. The formal gardens were designed by the Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medallist and judge, Michael Balston. Other features include an 18-hole championship golf course designed by the Californian Kyle Phillips, a spa, a health and leisure club, two large swimming pools, a croquet lawn, tennis courts, an Ofsted-inspected children's play area, a walled garden, woodland, meadowlands, a wetland area, two lakes, an urban beach and beehives producing Grove Honey. In 2006, it was the venue of the WGC-American Express Championship golf tournament.〔(The Grove website: Golf course )〕 It was the venue for the April 2009 G20 London summit.〔(Sunday Times, 22 February 2009, Jonathan Oliver and Sarah Baxter, Gordon Brown pips rivals to the White House to meet Barack Obama )〕〔(Watford Observer, 17 November 2008, Obama to visit Watford? )〕 The 2013 Bilderberg Conference took place in the hotel.〔("The week ahead: Bilderberg 2013 comes to … the Grove hotel, Watford" ) ''The Guardian''〕 In 2015 it was the location of the Boot Camp stage of X Factor 2015. 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「The Grove, Watford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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