Badminton, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort (q.v.), in the south of Gloucestershire, 7 miles E. of Yate Junction. It is a stately Palladian edifice of 1682, with a fine park. From it have been named a kind of claret cup, and a game, a predecessor of lawn tennis, played with a shuttlecock instead of a ball.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 654
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