Bowood House, Swindon

    bowood house

    Wiltshire, is the family home of the Marquess and Marchioness of Lansdowne and was built in 1750s. A part of the old building had to be demolished in 1955, and the present Georgian house by Robert Adam has a splendid library, picture and sculpture galleries, and special exhibition rooms with costumes, porcelain and various gifts from India from the time the 5th Marquess was Viceroy of India in 1888-1894.

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