Northwick Park, Gloucestershire

[1] In medieval times Northwick was a collection of smallholder's cottages surrounding a mansion owned by the Childe family.

In 1683 it was bought by Sir James Rushout, Bt, the son of a rich Flemish merchant, who carried out extensive remodelling in 1686.

The 4th Baronet continued the work, commissioning the architect Lord Burlington to design a Palladian east front and entrance hall in the 1730s.

The 5th Baronet, later Baron Northwick, employed architect John Woolfe to carry out further improvements c.1828 and William Emes to landscape the parkland.

It then passed down in the family to the 3rd Baron Northwick, whose widow in 1912 left the estate to her grandson, Captain Edward George Spencer-Churchill (first cousin to Sir Winston Churchill), who moved into the mansion.