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==Stately homes of England==
[[File:Longleat House.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|In the 20th century [[Longleat House]] was the first country house to open to the paying public, and also claims the first [[safari park]] outside Africa.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article737168.ece The lions and loins of Longleat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629121155/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article737168.ece |date=29 June 2011 }} ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' Retrieved 18 February 2011</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=trZX7dbuW54C&dq=longleat+first+safari+park&pg=PA554 ''New Scientist'' 2 Dec 1982] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521085347/https://books.google.com/books?id=trZX7dbuW54C&pg=PA554&dq=longleat%20first%20safari%20park&hl=en&ei=OERgTfLoD46P4Qb62p3YCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=longleat%20first%20safari%20park&f=false |date=21 May 2016 }} Retrieved 18 February 2011</ref> It became the first property in what later was known as the stately home industry.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}]]
The term ''stately home'' is subject to debate, and avoided by historians and other academics. As a description of a country house, the term was first used in a poem by [[Felicia Hemans]], "The Homes of England", originally published in ''[[Blackwood's Magazine]]'' in 1827. In the 20th century, the term was later popularised in a song by [[Noël Coward]],<ref>"The Stately Homes of England" by Noël Coward (1938) was featured in his musical [[Operette (musical)|"Operette"]], which premiered in the same year.</ref> and in modern usage it often implies a country house that is open to visitors at least some of the time.{{Citation needed |date=November 2019}}
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