Ashridge House is a Grade I listed neo-Gothic country house and estate near Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, set within the wider Ashridge estate on the Chilterns escarpment about 23 miles north‑west of London.
The House stands near Little Gaddesden/Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, on the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
 
The immediate designed gardens are about 190 acres, but the historic Ashridge estate extends to some amazing 5,000 acres of woodland, commons, and chalk downland known as Ashridge Forest.
 
The site originated as Ashridge Priory, a house of the Bonhommes founded in 1283 by Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall.The site originated as Ashridge Priory, a house of the Bonhommes founded in 1283 by Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall. the 17th–19th centuries it was the principal seat of the Egerton family, later Earls of Bridgewater and then the Earls Brownlow, who rebuilt it as a grand country house. The current Ashridge House was built between 1808 and 1814 for the 7th Earl of Bridgewater, to designs by James Wyatt, completed after his death by his nephew Jeffry Wyatt. It is  now regarded as an important early Gothic Revival mansion.
 
Interesting facts...
The medieval Ashridge Priory was founded in 1283 and reputedly housed a phial of Christ’s blood given by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, which drew pilgrims from across Europe and made the house a significant shrine.
Also in 1823, the young Princess Victoria visited and planted an oak in the gardens, a living marker of the estate’s royal associations. It is still there today.