We
Travelled from Olney to Old Warden to view the property/history of this
branch of the Ongley Family
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Warden is a village in Bedfordshire |
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Travelled from Olney to Old Warden to view the property/history of this
branch of the Ongley Family
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This
branch of the Ongley moved here from Kent. The Property was sold when
the 3rd Lord Ongley passed away unmarried and the peerage become extinct.
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Village
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Heading
to Hare & Hounds for Lunch
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Having
Lunch at Hare & Hounds |
1820s
built by the 3rd Lord for his Swiss fiancé
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Strolling
down Main Avenue - Old Warden
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I
think this is the entance to the Shuttleworth estate |
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Abbey
Church of St Leonard of Old Warden is named for Leonard of Noblac and
dates to the early 12th century but the present structure is predominantly
13th century, with 14th, 15th and 16th century additions.
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Samuel Ongley (1647–1726) , of Old Warden, Bedfordshire and Mincing
Lane, London, was an English politician.
Born in Maidstone, Kent, he became a London merchant. In 1698 he purchased the Old Warden Estate from Paulet St John, Earl of Bolingbroke. [1] He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire for 1703. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for Maidstone 1713 to 1715 and was knighted in 1713.[2] He died unmarried in 1726, leaving his estate to his nephew Robert Henly, who became an MP for Bedford. Sir Samuel is buried in St Leonard's church in Old Warden in Bedfordshire. |
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Robert
Henley-Ongley, 1st Baron Ongley |
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Henley-Ongley, 1st Baron Ongley (c. 1721 – 23 October 1785), was a
British politician. Born Robert Henley, the son of Robert Henley of London, he assumed the additional surname of Ongley as heir to the estate of his great-uncle, Sir Samuel Ongley, of Old Warden, Bedfordshire. |
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Ongley
Family mausoleum, built in 1790 and containing 42 vaults, only 10 of which
were used
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| 1814
Robert Henly - 2nd Lord Ongley - 42 years old
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1877
Robert Henley - 3rd & Last Lord Ongley - 74 years old |
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| Bell
Ringers - Said to Lynda have now met an Ongley
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The
church is known for the richly ornate wooden carvings |
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| Another
examle of ornate wooden carvungs - many more seen
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Church
Administraor discuses Ongley family history |
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| Entering
old Warden - 2nd Visit
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Strolling
down the Lane |
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| Shuttleworth
Old Warden Park
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Have
no memory of why I was standing here |
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| Lynda
keeping tabs on me
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Cannot
escape this photographer |
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| The Swiss Garden was created by 3rd Lord Ongley in the 1820s on land adjacent to his house, Old Warden Park. Ongley laid out his garden in the then-fashionable 'Swiss Picturesque' style. | |
| Swiss
Garden - Big Disappointment for Lynda - Closed for renovations while we
were there
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| The current house was commissioned by Joseph Shuttleworth to replace an existing house on the site, and was intended to rival the 17th-century Shuttleworth mansion at Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire. Building was completed in 1876 | |
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