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In the 19th century members of theEnglish Rothschild family bought and built manycountry houses in thehome counties, furnishing them with the art the family collected. The area of theVale of Aylesbury, where many of the houses were situated, became known as "Rothchildshire". In the 20th century many of these properties were sold off with their art collections dispersed. Today onlyEythrope House still belongs to the family, although they still retain influence in howAscott House andWaddesdon Manor are managed. Inthe loss of country houses in the 20th century onlyAston Clinton was lost.

The country houses that were purchased or built in or around Buckinghamshire included:^[1]

• Ascott House,Wing in theVale of Aylesbury^[2]
• Aston Clinton House,Aston Clinton in the Vale of Aylesbury^[3]
• Champneys,Wigginton on the edge of theChiltern Hills^[4]
• Eythrope,Buckinghamshire^[5]
• Exbury estate, HampshireExbury in theNew Forest National Park.^[6]
• Flint House,^[7]Waddesdon,Buckinghamshire^[8]
• Gunnersbury Park,Middlesex^[9]
• Halton House,Halton^[10]
• Mentmore Towers,Mentmore^[11]
• Shorncliffe Lodge,Folkestone,Kent^[12]
• Tring Park Mansion,Tring,Hertfordshire^[13]
• Waddesdon Manor,Waddesdon,Buckinghamshire^[14]
• Windmill Hill, Buckinghamshire,Waddesdon^[15]

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  Ascott House
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  Mentmore Towers
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  Halton House
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  Flint House

Nathan Mayer Rothschild had rentedTring Park inTring,Hertfordshire in the 1830s. It was purchased with 4,000 acres (16 km²) by Lionel Rothschild in May 1872 as his principal country residence.^[16]Waddesdon Manor, near to the market town ofAylesbury, was built in the 1870s,^[17] Further afield, the Rothschild family owned theExbury estate inHampshire, known for the Rothschild collection ofrhododendrons,azaleas andcamellias, now run by a charity.^[18]

• George Devey

• Ferguson, Niall (1998).The World's Banker: the History of the House of Rothschild. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.ISBN 0-297-81539-3.

• History of Buckinghamshire
• Houses in Buckinghamshire
• Houses in Hertfordshire
• Rothschild family residences
• Home counties

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