The Rothschild family owned multiple estates in the home counties, particularly the Buckinghamshire area. Properties The country houses that were purchased or built in or around Buckinghamshire included: Ascott House, Wing in the Vale of Aylesbury Aston Clinton House, Aston Clinton in the Vale of Aylesbury Champneys, Wigginton on the edge of the Chiltern Hills Eythrope, Buckinghamshire Exbury estate, Hampshire Exbury in the New Forest National Park. Flint House, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex Halton House, Halton Mentmore Towers, Mentmore Shorncliffe Lodge, Folkestone, Kent Tring Park Mansion, Tring, Hertfordshire Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire Windmill Hill, Buckinghamshire, Waddesdon History Nathan Mayer Rothschild had rented Tring Park in Tring, Hertfordshire in the 1830s. It was purchased with 4,000 acres (16 km2) by Lionel Rothschild in May 1872 as his principal country residence. Waddesdon Manor, near to the market town of Aylesbury, was built in the 1870s, Further afield, the Rothschild family owned the Exbury estate in Hampshire, known for the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, now run by a charity. See also George Devey References History of Buckinghamshire Houses in Buckinghamshire Houses in Hertfordshire Rothschild family residences Home counties