About Rycote
Learn more about Rycote Park and this website
The Rycote interactive timeline
Explore key moments from Rycote's past
The stories
Reveal Rycote's lost history
Visit Rycote Chapel
Visit Rycote in person
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About Rycote
Rycote Park in Oxfordshire was the site of a Tudor mansion, now demolished. The mansion and its owners entertained monarchs and helped shape a nation. This website reveals their lost stories.
Find out more about Rycote and this website
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The Rycote interactive timeline
Browse our interactive timeline for an overview of major events in the history of Rycote and the fascinating lives of its owners.
Interactive timeline
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The stories
Explore the rich stories of Rycote's medieval origins, the rise and decline of the great Tudor mansion, its royal visitors and its place in local and British history.
Explore the stories
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Visit Rycote Chapel
Plan a visit to Rycote’s exquisite fifteenth-century Chapel, which is open to the public and features beautiful painted woodwork, two seventeenth-century roofed pews and a musician’s gallery.
Find out more and plan your visit
Voices from Rycote
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Letter from Henry Bertie to his brother Peregrine Bertie describing the battle of Sedgemoor
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The Rycote picture gallery
Many of the pictures were removed to Wytham Abbey, as can be seen here: http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=45772&index=0&mainQuery=Wytham&searchType=all&form=home
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This letter is remarkable - not only does it give an interesting account of the Monmouth rebellion from the perspective of an army officer sent out to help in its suppression, but the spelling is...
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