Burghley House
Burghley House is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stamford railway station and St Martin’s Church.
Stamford railway station
Railway station
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Stamford railway station serves the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, England, and is located in St Martin's. The station is 12.5 miles west of Peterborough. Stamford railway station is situated 1¼ miles west of Burghley House.
St Martin’s Church
Church
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St Martin's Church, Stamford, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England located in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. The area of the town south of the River Welland was in Northamptonshire until 1889 and is called Stamford Baron or St Martin's. St Martin’s Church is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Burghley House.
St Leonard’s Priory
Ruins
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St Leonard's Priory, Stamford was a priory in Lincolnshire, England. It was built in Stamford, supposedly on the site of a monastery which was founded by St Wilfrid in 658 and destroyed in the Danish invasion. St Leonard’s Priory is situated 1 mile northwest of Burghley House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stamford Baron St Martin and Pilsgate.
Stamford Baron St Martin
Suburb
Stamford Baron St Martin is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Stamford, in the South Kesteven district, in the county of Lincolnshire, England.
Pilsgate
Village
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Pilsgate is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barnack, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England.
Stamford
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Stamford is a market town at the south-west corner of Lincolnshire, with a population of about 21,000. It's a charming place with a well-preserved Georgian centre, and with opulent Burghley House just south.
Burghley House
- Type: Historical site
- Description: grand sixteenth-century country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Categories: historic house museum, prodigy house, country house, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: St Martin’s Without, Peterborough, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Burghley House” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բերլի հաուս”
- Catalan: “Burghley House”
- Chinese: “伯利莊園”
- Danish: “Burghley House”
- Dutch: “Burghley House”
- Finnish: “Burghley House”
- French: “Burghley House”
- German: “Burghley House”
- Greek: “Μπέρλυ Χάουζ”
- Irish: “Burghley House”
- Italian: “Burghley House”
- Japanese: “バーグリーハウス”
- Japanese: “バーリー・ハウス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burghley House”
- Norwegian: “Burghley House”
- Polish: “Burghley House”
- Portuguese: “Burghley house”
- Portuguese: “Burghley House”
- Russian: “Бёргли-хаус”
- Russian: “Берли-хаус”
- Russian: “Бёрли-хаус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Burghley House”
- Slovenian: “Burghley House”
- Spanish: “Burghley House”
- Swedish: “Burghley House”
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