Blaise Hamlet is a complex of small cottages around a green. They were built around Events February 5 - George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III of the United Kingdom.He is known as the Prince Regent. This is the beginning of the period known as the English Regency. March 1 - Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali kills... 1811 for retired employees of John Scandrett Harford, who owned Blaise Castle is an 18th century house and estate near Henbury in Gloucestershire. It was immortalised by Jane Austen who described it as the finest place in England in her book Northanger Abbey. Blaise Castle House was built in 1796– 1798 for John Harford, a wealthy Bristol merchant and... Blaise Castle House. The hamlet was designed by John Nash may refer to: John Nash (architect) (1752-1835), British architect John Forbes Nash (born 1928), mathematician and recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... John Nash, master of the Picturesque style. He had worked for Harford on other buildings.

The cottages are now owned by the The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is an organisation which works to preserve and protect coastline, countryside and buildings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The trust does not operate in Scotland, where there is an independent National Trust... National Trust, but they are still occupied and not open to the public.