Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Charborough House, also known as Charborough Park, is a Grade I listed building and rural estate between the villages of Sturminster Marshall and Bere Regis in Dorset, England. The grounds, which include a deer park and gardens, adjoin the villages of Winterborne Zelston, Newton Peveril and Lytchett Matravers: they are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and have been called the most splendid parkland in Dorset.The estate has been owned by the same family since Elizabethan times and is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, commissioned by William I of England. The quadruple-barrelled surname of the owners is now Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, the Earles/Erles having arrived in Dorset from east Devon circa 1500, and continued via several female lines. The present occupant is Richard Drax, the Conservative Member of Parliament for South Dorset since 2010. The current house is in the centre of the park and incorporates parts of the original house built by Sir Walter Erle (1586–1665), the governor of Dorchester and parliamentarian commander, whose forces besieged Corfe Castle in 1646; stone and timber were taken from Corfe and used in the house's construction.In 1686, a group of conspirators met at Charborough House to plan the overthrow of \"the tyrant race of Stuarts\", hosted by Thomas Erle, Member of Parliament for Wareham since 1678 and a Deputy Lieutenant for Dorset since 1685. The meeting was effectively the start of the build-up to the Invitation to William, signed by the Immortal Seven, which resulted in the Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, and the overthrow of James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (Prince William of Orange)."@en }
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- Charborough_House abstract "Charborough House, also known as Charborough Park, is a Grade I listed building and rural estate between the villages of Sturminster Marshall and Bere Regis in Dorset, England. The grounds, which include a deer park and gardens, adjoin the villages of Winterborne Zelston, Newton Peveril and Lytchett Matravers: they are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and have been called the most splendid parkland in Dorset.The estate has been owned by the same family since Elizabethan times and is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, commissioned by William I of England. The quadruple-barrelled surname of the owners is now Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, the Earles/Erles having arrived in Dorset from east Devon circa 1500, and continued via several female lines. The present occupant is Richard Drax, the Conservative Member of Parliament for South Dorset since 2010. The current house is in the centre of the park and incorporates parts of the original house built by Sir Walter Erle (1586–1665), the governor of Dorchester and parliamentarian commander, whose forces besieged Corfe Castle in 1646; stone and timber were taken from Corfe and used in the house's construction.In 1686, a group of conspirators met at Charborough House to plan the overthrow of \"the tyrant race of Stuarts\", hosted by Thomas Erle, Member of Parliament for Wareham since 1678 and a Deputy Lieutenant for Dorset since 1685. The meeting was effectively the start of the build-up to the Invitation to William, signed by the Immortal Seven, which resulted in the Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, and the overthrow of James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (Prince William of Orange).".