page_title: Wentworth Woodhouse
hierarchical_section_title: Wentworth Woodhouse
caption_attribution_description: English: Wentworth Woodhouse Home of the Earls Fitzwilliam. Facade blackened by smoke from factories during the industrial revolution. Wentworth lies on the Barnsley coal seam, mined by the Earls on their land and making them one of the richest British families in the 1900s. The wealth of the Fitzwilliam family is now managed by a trust, the last Earl left no heirs.
context_page_description: Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. The building has more than 300 rooms, although the precise number is unclear, with 250,000 square feet of floorspace. It covers an area of more than 2.5 acres, and is surrounded by a 180-acre park, and an estate of 15,000 acres.
  The original Jacobean house was rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and vastly expanded by his son, the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established Wentworth Woodhouse as a Whig centre of influence. In the 18th century, the house was inherited by the Earls Fitzwilliam who owned it until 1979, when it passed to the heirs of the 8th and 10th Earls, its value having appreciated from the large quantities of coal discovered on the estate.
context_section_description: Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust.  The building has more than 300 rooms, although the precise number is unclear, with 250,000 square feet (23,000 m²) of floorspace (124,600 square feet (11,580 m²) of living area). It covers an area of more than 2.5 acres (1.0 ha), and is surrounded by a 180-acre (73 ha) park, and an estate of 15,000 acres (6,100 ha).
  The original Jacobean house was rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693–1750), and vastly expanded by his son, the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established Wentworth Woodhouse as a Whig centre of influence.  In the 18th century, the house was inherited by the Earls Fitzwilliam who owned it until 1979, when it passed to the heirs of the 8th and 10th Earls, its value having appreciated from the large quantities of coal discovered on the estate.
caption: The East Front in 2008
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