Day trips from London: Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire
A Tudor manor house built around a hall that dates from the Doomsday Book and is only occasionally open to the public — is open this month.This is Dorney Court, which looks proper Tudor, but looks can be deceiving, and with a bit of shuffling around, has been in the same family for 399 years.
Dorney Court first appears in the Doomsday Book in 1086 as a hall, possibly on land offered to one of William the Conquerer’s fellow conquerors, and passed through many owners being occasionally
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