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Welcome to the Web site of Boughton House, the residence in the Heart of England of the Duke of Buccleuch. This web site will provide you with the most complete guide to the building, the contents, and the history of any country house in Britain. Here you can find out where the house and the estate in which it stands are situated, when they are open to the public and how to get there. This site will also tell you what's on at Boughton, and what else you can see when you visit the county of Northamptonshire.
The treasures of Boughton House are very impressive and here you are able both to look at them and to find out more about them. You can look around the house, and when the site is complete you will be able to view three-dimensional presentations of the house and its contents. Here you will be able to take a tour of a virtual Boughton, to look closely at the finest porcelain - with no fear of dropping it - and examine pieces of furniture so delicate and so precious that good conservation and stewardship practices dictate that they should not be handled. We hope that many of you who make a visit to the house via this web site will be able to visit the real Boughton House yourselves. We have Quick Time VR available on this site. With this you can take a panoramic look at a number of rooms. Worth looking at! Richard, 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry, KBE, FRSE, DL, succeeded his father to the Dukedoms in September 2007. More about the 10th Duke of Buccleuch (opens new window)

Top of Page Notes on pronunciation Buccleuch: The 1931 revised Little Oxford Dictionary, p.592, listing pronunciations of proper names gives bukloo. The origin was an occasion when a "buck" (stag) was killed in a "cleuch" (small ravine) hundreds of years ago, by a young man who saved the King's life by seizing it by its antlers when it charged him. Boughton: Boughton is pronounced BOWton or BOUGHton (as on a tree),

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