In 1850 Paxton was commissioned by Baron Mayer de Rothschild to design Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire.

The Rothschilds began to acquire large estates in Buckinghamshire in the 1840s, when an estate was purchased near Mentmore for hunting, and a stud farm and kennels were established.

The remains of the Lodge, converted in the 15th century to a farmhouse, were demolished when Mentmore Towers was under construction in the mid 19th century.

However the hamlet was substantially rebuilt after the 1850s when it became part of the Mentmore estate of Baron Mayer de Rothschild.

In 1873 it was acquired by Baron Mayer de Rothschild ( of the neighbouring Mentmore Towers estate ).

During the 19th and 20th century, the hamlet was owned by Baron Mayer de Rothschild and, by inheritance, became part of the Earl of Rosebery's Mentmore estate.

The late 6th Earl of Rosebery who died in 1973 was fond of saying nothing had been built in Mentmore in his lifetime.

Historically it was first known simply as ' Mentmore '.

In 1997 Mentmore Towers was sold to a company, owned by Simon Halabi, now named Mentmore Towers Ltd, that, while restoring it, plans to turn it into a luxury hotel with 101 suites, including 62 in a new wing on the slope below the house.

Much of the historic park was sold off in 1944 and reverted to agricultural use before becoming the Mentmore Golf and Country Club, established in 1992, which has two eighteen hole golf courses, the Rothschild Course and the Rosebery Course.

The central hall ( not unlike the galleried two-storey hall at Mentmore Towers ) was furnished as the " grand salon ".

In 1911 he was honoured when he was created Baron Epsom, of Hyde in the County of Surrey, Viscount Mentmore, of Mentmore in the County of Buckingham, and Earl of Midlothian, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Lord Rosebery was married to Hannah de Rothschild, the wealthy daughter and heiress of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, through which marriage the Mentmore Towers estate in Buckinghamshire came into the Primrose family.

The Middleton family owned Wollaton Hall, a stately home on which Mentmore Towers was based, until it was sold by the 11th Baron in 1925.

Even in Europe some 19th-century mansions were often built as replicas of older houses, the Château de Ferrières in France was inspired by Mentmore Towers which in turn is a copy of Wollaton Hall.

His large sculpture of the stallion King Tom ( 1874 ) was commissioned by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild for his new mansion, Mentmore Towers, and moved to Dalmeny House in 1982.

She was his sole heiress, and through her, Mentmore Towers passed to the Earl of Rosebery, who served as Prime Minister from 1894 – 1895.

An enormous collection of Blarenberghe art was sold in the Mentmore Towers sale of 1977.

Lionel Rothschild's brother, Baron Mayer de Rothschild, became the first Rothschild to build a house in Buckinghamshire when he commissioned Joseph Paxton to design Mentmore Towers in 1850.

While Paxton and his son-in-law George Stokes worked on the mansion later to be known as Mentmore Towers, George Stokes also designed the first cottages for the new Mentmore.

Some more enlightened landlords at this time became more aware of the needs for proper sanitation and housing for their employees, and some estate villages were rebuilt to resemble what was thought to be an idyllic Elizabethan village, often grouped around a village green and pond, Mentmore in Buckinghamshire is an example of this.

Following the completion of Mentmore, Baron James de Rothschild, one of Baron de Rothschild's French cousins, commissioned Château de Ferrières at Ferrières-en-Brie near Paris to be " Another Mentmore, but twice the size ".

Other Rothschild houses in Buckinghamshire were all designed in the more formal styles of architecture, either the classical renaissance such as Mentmore or that of a French chateau as at Waddesdon Manor.

Two cottages at Mentmore designed to appear as one house, typical of those designed by George Devey for Hannah de Rothschild.

By the middle of the 19th century, all three of her sons had large estates and mansions in the Vale of Aylesbury: Lionel de Rothschild at Tring ; Anthony Nathan de Rothschild at Aston Clinton ; and Mayer at Mentmore.

There he built Mentmore Towers, the most sumptuous of the English Rothschild houses at the time.

After the Baron's death in 1877, Devey continued in the employ of his daughter Hannah de Rothschild building cottages at Wingrave and Mentmore.

Two cottages at Mentmore designed to appear as one house, typical of thoses designed by George Devey for Hannah de Rothschild.

In the early 1880s Macnamara now embarked on his most ambitious project yet, no doubt inspired by the building of Mentmore by Baron Mayer de Rothschild five miles away.

In the more recent Batman Begins ( 2005 ), the former Rothschild estate, Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, was used to portray Wayne Manor's exterior and interior.

Mentmore is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

In front of the monument is a rectangular concrete pillar that is the trig point and it is topped with a metal plaque donated in 1988 that points to true north and to the following distant features: The Cotswolds ( 53 miles ), Brill Hill ( 13 miles ), Waddesdon Manor ( 10 miles ), Calvert Chimneys ( 15 miles ), Aylesbury Church ( 5 miles ), Mursley Water Tower ( 15 miles ), Wingrave Church ( 8 miles ), Leighton Buzzard ( 12 miles ), Mentmore ( 9 miles ), Edlesborough Church ( 11 miles ) and Ivinghoe Beacon ( 9 miles ).

This is particularly noticeable in the towers, which are slimmer and more refined than those of Mentmore Towers, the other great Jacobethan house built in the same era.

Rosebery was notable in horseracing circles for winning the Epsom Derby with Blue Peter and Ocean Swell, and winning most other classic British flat races, with horses bred at his Mentmore and Crafton Studs.

The stable blocks are now developments of new housing, and executive style homes have been built in the village, yet Mentmore would still appears predominantly unchanged.

Why she built a large house barely two miles from her own home Mentmore Towers ( one of the largest mansions in Buckinghamshire ) can only be the subject of conjecture.

Paxton also continued to build such houses as Mentmore Towers, in the still popular retrospective Renaissance styles.

Paxton also continued to build such houses as Mentmore Towers, in the still popular English Renaissance styles.

Paxton also designed another country house, a smaller version of Mentmore at Battlesden near Woburn in Bedfordshire.

The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £ 2. 6 million train robbery ( the equivalent of around £ 40 million today ) committed on Thursday 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.

Built circa 1870 two semi-detached cottages at Mentmore, UK masquerade as one Tudorbethan architecture | Mock Tudor style house.

Known as " Fair Edith " she held manors in this part of Buckinghamshire, including a hunting lodge at Mentmore.

Many residents of the hamlet are equally confused by their parish's whereabouts, most have chosen to worship and be buried at Mentmore, the village most socially connected to Crafton.

Devey had worked at Ascott House, Aston Clinton House and Mentmore Towers.

Queen Edith, the daughter of Earl Godwin and wife of King Edward the Confessor had a hunting lodge at Mentmore, between the site of the present Mentmore Towers and the hamlet of Crafton at a site known as Berrystead.

The Grand Hall at Mentmore.

The Earls of Rosebery reside at Dalmeny, Dalmeny House, in Scotland, and until 1977 also resided at Mentmore Towers in England.

Institutions bearing the MERU name have also operated at Mentmore Towers, an estate in Buckinghamshire, England, and at Vlodrop, Netherlands.