Farnborough, Warwickshire

Coordinates: 52°08′38″N 1°22′07″W / 52.1439°N 1.3687°W / 52.1439; -1.3687
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Farnborough
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBanbury
Postcode districtOX17
Dialling code01295
PoliceWarwickshire
FireWarwickshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
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England
Warwickshire
52°08′38″N 1°22′07″W / 52.1439°N 1.3687°W / 52.1439; -1.3687

Farnborough is a village and

St Botolphs, a village hall and an eating house, The Kitchen. On the southern edge of the village is Farnborough Hall, a Grade I Listed building built by the Holbech family in the early 17th century and endowed to the National Trust in the 1960s. The interior of the Hall is most famous for its collection of Roman busts and paintings by Canaletto and Giovanni Paolo Panini collected during a Grand Tour by William Holbech junior in the early 18th century. The gardens and landscape were designed by the famous designer Sanderson Miller that include two temples along the manicured walk, known as The Terrace, with an 80 feet (24 m) tall obelisk [2]
at the end.

References

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  2. ^ Nicholson, Jean et al: The Obelisks of Warwickshire, page 19. Brewin Books, 2013
  • Warwickshire Towns & Villages, by Geoff Allen (2000)

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