Farnborough, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom


🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Farnborough is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. It is located on the border with Oxfordshire, around 6 miles (10 km) north of Banbury. The village has a church, St Botolphs, a village hall and an eating house, The Kitchen. On the southern edge of the village is Farnborough Hall, a Grade I Listed building built by the Holbech family in the early 17th century and endowed to the National Trust in the 1960s. The interior of the Hall is most famous for its collection of Roman busts and paintings by Canaletto and Giovanni Paolo Panini collected during a Grand Tour by William Holbech junior in the early 18th century. The gardens and landscape were designed by the famous designer Sanderson Miller that include two temples along the manicured walk, known as The Terrace, with an 80 feet (24 m) tall obelisk at the end.

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Farnborough has a population of over 265 people. Farnborough also forms part of the wider Stratford-on-Avon District which has a population of over 130,098 people. It is also a part of the larger Warwickshire County. Farnborough is situated 10 km north of Banbury.

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  • Charles Melville Seth-Ward |

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Charles Melville Seth-Ward is associated with Farnborough. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1903.

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