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Harewood House

Harewood House (as if written Harwood) is a country house located in Harewood

Harewood

Harewood is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. The A61 road runs through the village, from Leeds City Centre in the south to Harrogate in the north....
(pronounced as if written Hairwood), near Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of List of ceremonial counties of England by population....
, England

England

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Harewood House (as if written Harwood) is a country house located in Harewood

Harewood

Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of List of ceremonial counties of England by population....
, England

England

Treasure Houses of England

The Treasure Houses of England is a Cultural heritage consortium founded in the early 1970s by ten of the foremost stately homes in England still in private ownership, with the aim of marketing and promoting themselves as tourist venues....
, a marketing consortium for nine of the foremost stately homes in England. The house itself is a Grade I listed building

Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
, there are a number of features in the grounds and courtyard that have been listed as Grade II and II*.

A brief history of Harewood House

The house was built from 1759 to 1771 for Edwin Lascelles

Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood

Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood was a West Indian plantation owner of English ancestry....
, whose family had bought the estate after making its fortune in the West Indies through Customs positions, slave trading

Slavery

Slavery is a form of forced labor where a person is compelled to Labor for another . Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive Remuneration in return for their labor....
and lending money to planters. The house was designed by the architects John Carr and Robert Adam

Robert Adam

Robert Adam was a Scotland neoclassicism architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam , Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him....
.

Much of the furniture is by the eighteenth century English furniture designer Thomas Chippendale

Thomas Chippendale

Thomas Chippendale was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, Rococo, and Neoclassical architecture styles. He went to London in 1749 where, in 1754, he became the first cabinet-maker to publish a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director. Three editions were published, the firs...
, who came from nearby Otley

Otley

Otley is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Wharfe. Historic counties of England a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town has a total resident population of 14,348....
.

Lancelot "Capability" Brown

Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown , more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an England landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener"....
designed the grounds to which Sir Charles Barry

Charles Barry

Sir Charles Barry Fellow of the Royal Society was an England architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in his home city of London during the mid 19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens....
added a grand terrace, in 1844.

Artist Thomas Girtin

Thomas Girtin

File:Thomas Girtin 006.JPGThomas Girtin , was an England Painting and etcher, who played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form....
stayed at the house many times, painting the house itself and also the surrounding countryside and landmarks, such as the nearby Plumpton Rocks which at the time was owned by the Harewood Estate.

Harewood house has a long history of taking visitors interested in its imposing architecture, and collections of paintings. The first guidebook to Harewood House was published early in the nineteenth century.

The house served as a convalescent hospital during both World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
and World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
.

The archives of the Lascelles family and the Harewood estate are held at in Leeds.

Harewood House today

The house is still the family home of the Lascelles family. George Lascelles

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood

George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood Order of British Empire , styled The Hon. George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, is the elder son of the Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood , and Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, the only daughter of George V of the United King...
, is the seventh Earl

Earl of Harewood

Earl of Harewood, in the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1812 for Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood, a wealthy sugar plantation owner and former Member of Parliament for Northallerton ....
. His mother was Mary, Princess Royal

Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood

The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood was a member of the British Royal Family the third child and only daughter of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck....
, daughter of King George V

George V of the United Kingdom

George V was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha....
and Queen Mary

Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck was the queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales....
.

The estate has been transferred into a trust ownership structure, and as a result is managed by Harewood House Trust and is open to the public most of the year. Harewood won a Large Visitor Attraction of the Year award in the 2003 national Excellence in England awards and remains a popular Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
tourist attraction. As well as tours of the house and grounds, visitors can enjoy the Himalayan

Himalayas

The Himalaya Range or Himalayas for short , meaning "abode of snow" ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau....
Garden and its stupa

Stupa

A stupa is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, once thought to be places of Buddhist worship, typically the remains of a Buddha or saint....
, an educational bird garden, an extensive adventure playground and catering facilities. From May 2007 to October 2008 the grounds also contained Yorkshire's first planetarium, the Yorkshire Planetarium

Yorkshire Planetarium

The Yorkshire Planetarium was a planetarium in the grounds of Harewood House, near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, from May 2007 until October 2008....
.

The Leeds Country Way

Leeds Country Way

The Leeds Country Way is a circular Long-distance trail of 62 miles around Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is nowhere further than 7 miles from Leeds City Square, but is mainly rural with extensive views in the outlying areas of the City of Leeds....
passes through the Harewood Estate, to the south of the house and lake.

Pronunciation of 'Harewood'

There is often debate as to the exact pronunciation of the word 'Harewood'. In the eighteenth century, the customary pronunciation (and spelling) was Harwood and this pronunciation for both house and title is still used by Harewood House. Nevertheless, the typical pronunciation nowadays is Harewood.

Harewood House

A brief history of Harewood House

Harewood House today

Pronunciation of 'Harewood'

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