Ascot Place is an 18th-century mansion on the edge of

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, set in of parkland between Cranbourne,

North Ascot North Ascot is an area of Bracknell Forest in the county of Berkshire in England, with a few acres straddling the town of Ascot in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It lies north of the A329 and west of the A332, adjoining the Ascot R ...

and

Winkfield Winkfield is a village and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest unitary authority of Berkshire, England. Geography According to the 2011 census, the parish had a population of 14,998. The parish includes the hamlets of Winkfield, Maidens Gre ...

in the English county of

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. It is located close to

and Ascot Racecourse. The mansion itself and various

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s and other structures in its garden are

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, whilst a

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to the south of house and at west end of lake is

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. Records of Ascot Place date back to 1339, with owners including baked beans tycoon H.J. "Jack" Heinz II. In 1989 the house was bought by Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the emir of

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