Burghley
Americannoun
noun
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Sometimes, such a find comes with a mystery: How the heck did the woman make her way from Burghley House, a stately home near Peterborough, England, to a shallow grave 300 yards away?
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024
In 2020 the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment announced it was moving into Acland Burghley School in North London, after the lease on its previous accommodation came to an end.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023
Ella Benson Roberts is a biracial white and black Caribbean student at Acland Burghley school in north-west London.
From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2017
If you have been to some of the great palaces of the British aristocracy — Blenheim, Chatsworth or Burghley House — you have seen Brown’s work.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2016
Here was a young man of twenty years of age, earnestly urging the adoption of a scheme which he had conceived, and which he feared Burghley might consider indiscreet and unadvised.
From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.
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