Qualla: Avebury Manor and Garden https://qualla.com/avebury-manor-and-garden en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-manor-and-garden-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Avebury Manor and Garden https://qualla.com/avebury-manor-and-garden Avebury Manor and Garden: Introduction https://qualla.com/avebury-manor-and-garden/ Photo credit Chris Collard, CC BY-SA 2.0. Most great English houses sit politely beside their landscape. Avebury Manor stands inside it. The early-Tudor building looks out across the largest prehistoric stone circle in Britain - the massive Avebury henge, predating Stonehenge by centuries - and the manor's own grounds occupy ground that may have been used by the same Neolithic farmers who raised those stones. Before the manor came a Benedictine priory founded in 1114 as a cell of the great Norman abbey at Saint-Georges, Boscherville. Before the priory, the stones. Avebury Manor is a Tudor house living on top of a medieval monastery built next door to a 4,500-year-old monument. Layered like this, the place hums.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-manor-and-garden-wp/gcns-avebury-manor-and-garden-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Avebury Manor and Garden: Deborah Moody Sails for Brooklyn https://qualla.com/avebury-manor-and-garden/ Photo credit Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0. By the 1580s the manor was passing through the Dunch family. William Dunch had bought the place partly because he was fascinated by ancient monuments - he wanted to live near the stones. He passed it to his son Walter, whose daughter Deborah grew up running around the henge as a ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-manor-and-garden-wp/gcns-avebury-manor-and-garden-deborah-moody-sails-for-brooklyn.mp3 0:06 2 full Avebury Manor and Garden: Marmalade Money and Henge Archaeology https://qualla.com/avebury-manor-and-garden/ Photo credit Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0. The house passed through hands for three centuries - Marvyns, Stawells, eventually the Jenner family in the early 20th century, who added a West Library and redesigned the gardens. Then in the late 1930s came Alexander Keiller, heir to the Keiller's marmalade fortune in Dundee. K...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-manor-and-garden-wp/gcns-avebury-manor-and-garden-marmalade-money-and-henge-archaeology.mp3 0:06 3 full Avebury Manor and Garden: Saved from Demolition https://qualla.com/avebury-manor-and-garden/ Photo credit Stefan Czapski, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1955 the rate of demolition of English country houses had reached a peak - one house was being torn down every five days. The owners couldn't afford to maintain them, the postwar economy didn't reward holding them, and the National Trust hadn't yet developed the capacity it ha...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-manor-and-garden-wp/gcns-avebury-manor-and-garden-saved-from-demolition.mp3 0:06 4 full Avebury Manor and Garden: The Torture Chamber Years https://qualla.com/avebury-manor-and-garden/ Photo credit Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0. His widow sold the house in 1976 to the 8th Marquess of Ailesbury. In 1988 it was bought by Ken King, a property developer who saw an opportunity in heritage tourism. He made changes without planning permission. He opened an 'Elizabethan experience' attraction. He installed a fau...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/s/avebury-manor-and-garden-wp/gcns-avebury-manor-and-garden-the-torture-chamber-years.mp3 0:06 5 full Avebury Manor and Garden: Touch the Furniture https://qualla.com/avebury-manor-and-garden/ Photo credit Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0. The unusual rule at Avebury Manor is that visitors are encouraged to touch. To sit on the chairs. To handle the objects. The rooms are arranged to represent periods from the 16th century through to the early 20th, and the philosophy is that the place should feel lived in rather t...

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