Hedgerley Historical Society
Following our brief AGM on the 20th April 2016 popular writer
and speaker on Buckinghamshire history, Julian Hunt will present
Buckinghamshire’s Great Houses – an Architectural Tour.
Nearly every parish has its manor house, enlarged and embellished by successive lords of
the manor, to assert their power over their tenants and advertise their wealth to their friends.
Some, like the Grenville’s of Stowe and the Dashwoods of High Wycombe, used their great
houses and gardens as statements of their power on the
national stage. This will be an entertaining but light-hearted
account of these pretentious Householders.
In 1988 Julian Hunt was appointed as Buckinghamshire’s
first local studies librarian.
He established the Centre
for
Buckinghamshire
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