Conholt was a small village in east
Wiltshire
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, England, close to the
Hampshire
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border and about northwest of
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. It is now the site of the Conholt Park estate.
There may have been a village here in the 13th century, but by the 16th there were only farmsteads. In the late 17th century a
deer park was created. Since the 19th century the land has been part of
Chute
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civil parish
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.
The
country house
image:Blenheim - Blenheim Palace - 20210417125239.jpg, 300px, Blenheim Palace - Oxfordshire
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known as Conholt Park was built in the late 17th century and extended in the 18th and early 19th. The house is
Grade II* listed
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and its 18th-century stable block and carriage house are Grade II listed. In 1992 the estate was acquired by a company belonging to the family of
Paul van Vlissingen, an Anglo-Dutch businessman and philanthropist;
it was his home from 1994 until his death in 2006. American billionaire
Steve Schwarzman purchased the house, with 2,500 acres, in 2022 for an amount reported to be in excess of £80million.
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Hamlets in Wiltshire
Grade II listed buildings in Wiltshire