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Burton Court, Linton

country house in Linton, Penyard, Herefordshire, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ15978927 ↗
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Burton Court is a grade II listed, large country house near Linton, Penyard, Herefordshire, England.

The house is constructed of brick-faced stone, with five bays. Three bays have lunette windows and a steep pediment. Within the pediment is a diocletian window.

It was built in the 18th century and was owned by the Huntley Family of Boxwell Court, Gloucestershire until 2010.

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“Burton Court, Linton” enters the record as country house in Linton, Penyard, Herefordshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Burton, Court and Linton can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15978927. Authority coordinates are 51.913, -2.495. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Burton Court, Linton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.