About Wormleybury

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Wormleybury is an 18th-century house and landscaped park of 57ha (140 acres) near Wormley in Hertfordshire, England.

Wormleybury House was built by Robert Mylne in 1767-69 for Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet on the site of an earlier house which had been built in 1733-35 by his elder brother, Alexander Hume (d 1765), from whom he had inherited the estate. It was embellished by Robert Adam in 1777-79. The drawing room has painted roundels by Angelica Kauffman. The house is a Grade I listed building.

The park is also listed Grade II by English Heritage

In 1825 the parish records from the Parish Church of St. Laurence, Wormley were lodged with Sir Abraham Hume in Wormleybury.

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Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, EN10 7PY

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