Dorset
East Dorset District
Pamphill

Kingston Lacy

Kingston Lacy is a country house and estate near , , England. It was for many years the family seat of the Bankes family who lived nearby at until its destruction in the English Civil War after its incumbent owners, Sir John Bankes and Dame Mary, had remained loyal to Charles I.
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  • Type: Manor estate
  • Description: country house with Bankes‘ Collections near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, UK
  • Address: Wimborne Minster, BH21 4EA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Philae obelisk and St Stephen’s Church, Pamphill.

Obelisk
Photo: Eugene Birchall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is one of a pair of twin obelisks erected at Philae in in the second century BC. It was discovered by William John Bankes in 1815, who had it brought to Kingston Lacy in , , where it still stands today. is situated 500 feet southwest of Kingston Lacy.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Stephen's is the parish church of in , . The current church lies on the site of a former church dating from 1229. The current church was laid out for construction in 1846 at the end of an avenue of trees. is situated 3,300 feet east of Kingston Lacy.

Archaeological site
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is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east , England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple was located immediately west of the fort, and there was a Romano-British town known as Vindocladia a short distance to the south-west. is situated 1½ miles northwest of Kingston Lacy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wimborne Minster and Hinton Parva.

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, also called just Wimborne, is a town of 16,000 people at the confluence of the River Stour and the River Allen, on the Dorset Heaths in , England.

Village
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is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Hinton, in east , England, three miles north of . The parish had a population of 56 in 2001 and included the nearby village of Stanbridge. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Kingston Lacy.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in , England. It is in the unitary authority of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, between the village of and the market town of . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Kingston Lacy.

Kingston Lacy

Latitude
50.81093° or 50° 48′ 39″ north
Longitude
-2.03177° or 2° 1′ 54″ west
Elevation
115 feet (35 metres)
Operator
National Trust
Open location code
9C2VRX69+97
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27747870
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­manor
Geo­Names ID
8410830
Wiki­data ID
Q1232310
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kingston Lacy” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Albanian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Arabic: “كنغزتن ليسي”
  • Aragonese: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Basque: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Breton: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Catalan: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Croatian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Czech: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Danish: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Dutch: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Esperanto: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Estonian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Finnish: “Kingston Lacy”
  • French: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Galician: “Kingston Lacy”
  • German: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Greek: “Κίνγκστον Λέισι”
  • Hebrew: “קינגסון לייסי”
  • Hungarian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Icelandic: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Irish: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Italian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Japanese: “キングストン・レイシー”
  • Latin: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Lithuanian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Lombard: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Low German: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Norwegian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Piemontese: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Polish: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Portuguese: “Kingston Lacy House”
  • Portuguese: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Romanian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Russian: “Кингстон-Лейси”
  • Slovak: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Slovenian: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Spanish: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Swedish: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Swiss German: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Turkish: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Ukrainian: “Кінгстон-Лейсі”
  • Walloon: “Kingston Lacy”
  • Welsh: “Kingston Lacy”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kingston Lacy”. Photo: Vauxford, CC BY-SA 4.0.