which places did william travel to?
France, Belgium, Holland
William Burges
Enabled by his private income, Burges moved through England, then France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece and finally into Turkey. 
what is the tower house? A late-Victorian townhouse in Holland Park district, London who designed it? William Burges where was he born? England who were his parents? Alfred Burges
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William Burges [SEP] Early life and travels
His style had already been formed over the previous twenty years of study, thinking and travelling. J. Mordaunt Crook, the foremost authority on Burges, writes that, "once established, after twenty years' preparation, his 'design language' had merely to be applied, and he applied and reapplied the same vocabulary with increasing subtlety and gusto."