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The following organisations are responsible for the upkeep of numerous stately homes. However, many stately homes are owned/managed by private individuals or by trusts. The costs of running a stately home are legendarily high. Many owners rent out their homes for use as film and television sets as a means of extra income, thus many of them are familiar sights to people who have never visited them in person. The grounds often contain other tourist attractions, such as safari parks, funfairs or museums. The term stately home is a quotation from the poem ''The Homes of England'' originally published in '' Blackwood's Magazine '' in 1827 by Felicia Hemans , which begins as follows. :The stately Homes of England, :How beautiful they stand, :Amidst their tall ancestral trees, :O’er all the pleasant land! Noel Coward wrote and performed a Parody of the above: :The stately homes of England, :How beautiful they stand, :To prove the upper classes :Have still the upper hand. In the later, Las Vegas phase of his career Coward revised his lyrics: :The stately homes of England we proudly represent, :We only keep them up for Americans to rent.... Quentin Crisp referred to himself as "''one of the stately homos ( Homosexual s) of England''". The plain-spoken expression their owners use for these houses is simply "country houses." "Stately homes" is a Real Estate dealers' phrase, more suited to Robin Leach 's enthusiastic gush on '' Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous '' and to the ''poised'' vocabulary of Dame Edna Everage . SEE ALSO
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