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EXPLORING APPULDURCOMBE HOUSE IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT BEGAN IN 1100 AS A PRIORY AND LATTER A CONVENT.IT THEN BECAME A ELIZABETHAN HOME OF THE LEIGH FAMILY.THE TUDOR MANSION WAS BEQUEATHED IN 1690 BY SIR ROBERT WORSLEY THE 3rd BARONET WHO BEGAN PLANNING FOR A REPLACEMENT.
THE PRESENT HOUSE WAS BEGUN IN 1702 AND THE ARCHITECT WAS JOHN JAMES,BUT SIR ROBERT NEVER SEEN IT FINISHED AS HE DIED ON 29 JULY 1747.
THE HOUSE WAS GREATLY EXTENDEDD IN THE 1770s BY HIS GREAT-NEPHEW SIE RICHARD WORSLEY,7 BARON WORSLEY OF APPULDURCOMBE.THE NEWLY EXTENDED MANSION WAS WERE SIR RICHARD BROUGHT HIS NEW WIFE THE 17 YEAR OLD SEYMOUR DOROTHY FLEMMING WHOM HE MARRIED FOR £80.000.
CAPACITY BROWN WAS COMMISIONED IN 1779 TO DESIGN THE ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS AT THE SAME TIME AS AS THE EXTENSIONS.A ROMANTIC ROOMED FOLLY KNOWN AS THE COOKES CASTLE WAS BUILT ON THE HILL FACING TO TO INPROVE THE VIEW FROM THE HOUSE.DURING SIR RICHARDS TIME,THE HOUSE HELD A HUGE ART COLLECTION AND WAS THE SETTING FOR SIR RICHARDS ENTERTAINING OF THE MOST ENIMENT FIGURES OF THE TIME.
SIR RICHARDS MARRIAGE FELL APART AND THE COUPLES ONLY CHILD DIED IN INFANCY.
AFTER HE SUED ONE OF HIS WIFES 27 LOVERS,THE COUPLE INFORMALLY SPLIT.SEYMOUR COULD NOT REMARRY UNTIL RICHARDS DEATH,SEYMOUR THEN BECAME A PROFFESIONAL MISTRESS OR DEMIMONDAINE LIVING OF DONATIONS OF RICH MEN TO SURVIVE,JOINING OTHER UPPER CLASS LADYS IN THE SAME POSISTION IN THE NEW FEMALE COTERIE.
SIR RICHARD DIED OF APOPLEXY ON 8 AUGUST 1805 AT THE HOUSE,HE WAS BURIED AT THE PARISH CHURCH IN GODSHILL.
AS FOR SEYMOUR AFTER HER HUSBANDS DEATH THE £70,000 JOINTURE,,,OR EQUIVALENT TO £6.1 MILLION TODAY OR 2021 REVERTED TO HER AND SHE REMARRIED A MONTH LATTER.
TROOPS WERE STATIONED THERE IN BOTH WARS.ON FEBUARY THE 7 1943 A GERMAN LUFTWAFFE DORNIER DO 217 THAT WAS LAYING MINES IN THE CHANNEL CAME INLAND AFTER GETTING INTO TROUBLE AND DROPED ITS LAST REMINING MINE CLOSE THO THE HOUSE BEFORE CRASHING.
THE WINDOWS WERE BLOWN OUT AND PART OF THE ROOF DESTROYED,BECAUSE OF THIS THE INTERIORS WERE SOLD OFF.
THE HOUSE IS KNOWN FOR GHOST TOURS AND IT IS VERY HAUNTED.
AS OF JANUARY 2016 THE HOUSE AS BEEN UP FOR SALE WITH ITS ESTATE FOR 4.75 M.
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