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In the 1760s the first Lord Harcourt demolished the old village in order to create a landscaped park, and built a new village along the main road (now the A4074). Nuneham Park is a Palladian Villa , built for the 1st Earl of Harcourt in 1756. Its landscaped grounds were designed by Lancelot Brown . All Saints Old Church was built by the first Lord Harcourt after he had demolished the original village church. It was built overlooking the River Thames as a domed Palladian temple. Its entrance is at the west end; an Ionic Portico was created to complement the landscaping of the park, and fronts a blank wall. The Harcourt Arboretum lies just outside the village. This is part of the plant collection of the Oxford Botanic Garden . It occupies part of what were the grounds of Nuneham Park. The arboretum includes ten Acre s of woodland, and a thirty-seven-acre wild-flower meadow. The village is also the home of the Bodleian Library 's Nuneham Courtenay Book Repository, which houses one and a half million items selected from the University Of Oxford 's collections. SOURCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS
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