List of family seats of English nobility

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This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principle family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families.

Seats of the Royal family

Primary title Family seat
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Prince of Wales Clarence House, London
Duke of Cambridge Kensington Palace, London
Duke of Gloucester Kensington Palace, London
Duke of Kent Kensington Palace, London

Family seats of English peers

Primary title Family seat
Duke of Norfolk Arundel Castle, Sussex
Duke of Somerset Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire
Duke of Richmond Goodwood House, Sussex
Duke of Grafton Euston Hall, Suffolk
Duke of Beaufort Badminton House, Gloucestershire
Duke of Bedford Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
Duke of Devonshire Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Duke of Marlborough Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Duke of Rutland Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire
Duke of Northumberland Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Duke of Wellington Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire
Duke of Westminster Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Marquess of Lansdowne Bowood House, Wiltshire
Marquess Townshend Raynham Hall, Norfolk
Marquess of Salisbury Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
Marquess of Bath Longleat House, Wiltshire
Marquess of Hertford Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
Marquess of Exeter Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire
Marquess of Northampton Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire
Marquess of Rockingham Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire
Marquess Camden Wherwell House, Hampshire
Marquess of Cholmondeley Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Marquess of Abergavenny Eridge Castle, Sussex
Marquess of Zetland Aske Hall, Yorkshire
Earl of Oxford Castle Hedingham, Essex
Earl of Shrewsbury Wanfield Hall, Staffordshire
Earl of Derby Knowsley Hall, Lancashire
Earl of Huntingdon Hodcott House, Berkshire
Earl of Pembroke Wilton House, Wiltshire
Earl of Devon Powderham Castle, Devon
Earl of Suffolk Charlton Park, Wiltshire
Earl of Denbigh Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire
Earl of Sandwich Mapperton House, Dorset
Earl of Carlisle Naworth Castle, Cumberland
Earl of Shaftesbury Ashley House, Dorset
Earl of Scarbrough Sandbeck House, Yorkshire
Earl of Coventry Croome Park, Worcestershire
Earl Ferrers Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk
Earl of Dartmouth Woodsome Hall, Yorkshire
Earl of Aylesford Packington Hall, Warwickshire
Earl of Macclesfield Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire
Earl Waldegrave Chewton House, Somerset
Earl of Portsmouth Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire
Earl of Guilford Waldershare House, Kent
Earl of Onslow Clandon House, Surrey (formerly)
Earl of Ilchester Farley Mill, Kent
Earl De La Warr Buckhurst Park, Sussex
Earl of Radnor Longford Castle, Wiltshire
Earl Spencer Althorp House, Northamptonshire
Earl Bathurst Cirencester House, Gloucestershire
Earl of Clarendon Holywell House, Hampshire
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Empacombe House, Cornwall
Earl Fortescue Ebrington Manor, Gloucestershire
Earl of Carnarvon Highclere Castle, Hampshire
Earl of Malmesbury Greywell Hill House, Hampshire
Earl of Craven Hawkwood House, Sussex
Earl of Romney Mote House, Kent
Earl of Chichester Little Durnford Manor, Wiltshire
Earl of Normanton Somerley House, Hampshire
Earl Grey Howick Hall, Northumberland
Earl of Lonsdale Lowther Castle, Westmorland
Earl of Harrowby Sandon Hall, Staffordshire
Earl of Harewood Harewood House, Yorkshire
Earl Cathcart Gateley Hall, Norfolk
Earl of Verulam Gorhambury House, Hertfordshire
Earl of St Germans Port Eliot, Cornwall
Earl of Morley Pound House, Devon
Earl of Bradford Weston Park, Shropshire
Earl Howe Penn House, Buckinghamshire
Earl of Stradbroke Henham Park, Suffolk
Earl of Lichfield Shugborough House, Staffordshire
Earl of Durham Lambton Castle, Durham
Earl of Yarborough Brocklesby House, Lincolnshire
Earl of Leicester of Holkham Holkham Hall, Norfolk
Earl of Gainsborough Exton Hall, Rutland
Earl of Strafford Apple Tree Cottage, Hampshire
Earl of Selborne Temple Manor, Hampshire
Earl of Iddesleigh Hayne House, Devon
Earl of Cranbrook Great Glemham House, Suffolk
Earl of Halsbury New Mills House, Devon
Earl of Plymouth Oakly Park, Shropshire
Earl St Aldwyn Wilderstrip House, Gloucestershire
Earl of Iveagh Elveden Hall, Suffolk
Earl of Balfour Burpham Lodge, Sussex
Earl of Oxford and Asquith The Manor House, Somerset
Earl Jellicoe Tidcombe Manor, Wiltshire
Earl Peel Eelmire House, Yorkshire
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Manor Farm House, Oxfordshire
Countess Mountbatten of Burma Newhouse Manor, near Ashford, Kent
Earl of Swinton Dykes Hill House, Yorkshire
Viscount Falmouth Tregothnan, Cornwall
Viscount Torrington Great Hunts Place, Hampshire
Viscount Melville Wey House, Somerset
Viscount Hardinge Broadmere House, Hampshire
Viscount Hampden Glynde Place, Sussex
Viscount Knutsford Broadclyst House, Devon
Viscount Goschen Hilton House, Berkshire
Viscount Ridley Blagdon Hall, Northumberland
Viscount Knollys Bramerton Hall, Norfolk
Viscount Allendale Bywell Castle, Northumberland
Viscount Mersey Bignor Park, Sussex
Viscount Cowdray Cowdray House, Sussex
Viscount Devonport Ray Demesne, Northumberland
Viscount Astor Ginge House, Oxfordshire
Viscount Allenby Newnham Lodge, Hampshire
Viscount Bridgeman Watley House, Hampshire
Viscount Brentford Cousley Place, Sussex
Viscount Bledisloe Lydney Park, Gloucestershire
Viscount Trenchard Standon Lordship, Hertfordshire
Viscount Ingleby Snilesworth Lodge, Yorkshire
Viscount Head Throope Manor, Wiltshire
Viscount Boyd of Merton Ince Castle, Cornwall
Viscount Eccles Moulton Hall, Yorkshire
Baron Hastings Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
Baron FitzWalter Goodnestone Park, Kent
Baroness Willoughby de Eresby Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
Baron Camoys Stonor Park, Oxfordshire
Baron Saye and Sele Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire
Baroness Braye Stanford Hall, Leicestershire
Baron Petre Ingatestone House, Essex
Baron Stafford Swynnerton Park, Staffordshire
Baron Clifford of Chudleigh Ugbrooke Park, Devon
Baron Barnard Raby Castle, Durham
Baron Bagot Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire
Baron Jermyn Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk
Baron Braybrooke Audley End, Essex
Baron Bolton Bolton Hall, Yorkshire
Baron Sandys Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Baron Harris Belmont House, Kent
Baron Ravensworth Eslington Park, Northumberland
Baron Rayleigh Terling Place, Essex
Baron Feversham Duncombe Park, Yorkshire
Baron de Saumarez Saumarez Manor, Guernsey
Baron Methuen Corsham Court, Wiltshire
Baron Leigh Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire
Baron Egremont Petworth House, East Sussex

Family seats of English baronets and gentry

Family name or title Family seat
Arden family Park Hall, Castle Bromwich, West Midlands
Barrett-Lennard baronets Belhus, Essex
Biddulph baronets Elmhurst Hall, Staffordshire
Blackett baronets Matfen Hall, Northumberland
Blois family Cockfield Hall, Suffolk
Bulmer family Wilton Castle, Redcar and Cleveland
Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy baronets Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
Corbet family Moreton Corbet Castle, Shropshire
Davers baronets Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk
Dormer family Rousham House, Oxfordshire
Fettiplace family Compton Beauchamp House, Oxfordshire
Gage baronets Hengrave Hall, Suffolk
Gascoigne baronets Lotherton Hall, West Yorkshire
Gough family Perry Hall, Birmingham
Greene baronets Nether Hall, Suffolk
Gresley baronets Drakelowe Hall, Derbyshire
Hervey-Bathurst family Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire
Kingsbury family Kingsbury Hall, Warwickshire
Lemon baronets Carclew House, Cornwall
Lupton family Potternewton Hall, West Yorkshire
Mander family The Mount, Tettenhall Wood, West Midlands
Manningham-Buller baronets Dilhorne Hall, Staffordshire
Money-Kyrle family of Whetham Whetham House, Calne, Wiltshire
Ogle family Kirkley Hall, Northumberland
Palmes family Naburn Hall, City of York
Perkins family of Ufton Ufton Court, Berkshire
Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Charborough Charborough House, Charborough Park, Dorset
Rose baronets Hardwick House, Oxfordshire
Selby family Biddlestone Hall, Northumberland
Shelton family Shelton Hall, Norfolk
Smalbroke family Blakesley Hall, Birmingham
Spencer-Stanhope family Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire
Spring family Pakenham Hall, Suffolk
Standish baronets Duxbury Hall, Lancashire
Strachey baronets Sutton Court, Somerset
Tempest family Stella Hall, County Durham
Throckmorton baronets Coughton Court, Warwickshire
Tollemache family Helmingham Hall, Suffolk
Towneley family Towneley Hall, Lancashire
de Trafford baronets Croston Hall, Lancashire
Trevelyan baronets Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Verney family Claydon House, Buckinghamshire
Vernon family Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
Wrightson family Cusworth Hall, South Yorkshire

References

  • John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England (Scott, Webster and Geary, London, 1838)
  • Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time (Heritage Books, London, 1840)
  • Charles Mosley (Ed.), Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons (107th Edition, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 2003)
  • Burke's Landed Gentry (Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1921)
  • Charles Kidd (Ed.), Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2015 (149th Edition, Debrett's Ltd, London, 2014)
  • Joel Stevens, Symbola heroica: or the mottoes of the nobility and baronets of Great-Britain and Ireland; placed alphabetically (1736)