Norbury Park

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The current mansion from 1774

Norbury Park is the name of a park with forest and agricultural areas near Leatherhead and Dorking in the English county of Surrey , as well as its current country house. The piece of land already appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 and the current mansion was built in 1774. The mostly elevated property lies in a bend in the river Mole and belongs partly to the municipality of Mickleham , partly to the municipality of Westhumble . The Box Hill , now located south-east of the property, once owned it.

A small treasure from the bronze age , consisting of two Palstabe -Äxten and a chape v a scabbard of about 1150-1000. Was discovered in 2003 in the sparse forest on the west side of the park. In the park you will also find the Druids Grove , which also maps of the Ordnance Survey is listed, an important grove of yew that of Druids apocryphal was used for rituals and ceremonies. These trees are among the oldest in Britain . The manor was called Northbury for a while .

history

estate

The park belonged to the Stydolf family for two centuries . The diary writer John Evelyn described a visit to Box Hill and Norbury Park in August 1655. The latter then belonged to Sir Francis Stydolf . His son Richard , who raised King Charles II to Baronet Stydolf , later inherited the property from his father and bequeathed it to his daughter, who married Thomas Tyron from Leatherhead. The property remained in the Tryon family until 1766 . Then Charles Tryon (the father of William Tryon , then Governor of the Province of North Carolina ) sold it to William Locke , a London art critic.

Mansion

Locke had the original manor house in the floodplain of the River Mole demolished and in 1774 the one that still exists today was built according to plans by Thomas Sandby . Locke also hired Irish landscape architect George Barrett Sr. With the design of one of the main reception rooms.

Weir Bridge from 1840 over the River Mole, a historic building II *. Degree.

Locke died in 1810 and his family left Norbury Park in 1819. Ebenezer Fuller Maitland , the former Member of Parliament for Wallingford , bought the house in 1822 and later traded it with Henry Piper Sperling for Park Place in Remenham , Berkshire . Sperling stayed in Norbury Park for 24 years, planting the gardens around the house and building the Weir Bridge over the River Mole, which still stands today and is a Historic Building II *. Degree is listed.

In 1850 Thomas Grissell bought the property. In 1911 Leopold Salomons lived there . The family of Solomon delivered the Box Hill on September 23, 1915 the State. The Norbury Park property appears to have been partially divided up by the Solomons' estate administrator. The mansion, horse breeding and 257 acres of parkland were sold to William Corry in September 1916 . In August 1922 he sold the property to Sir Edward Mountain , chairman of the board of the Eagle Star Insurance Company .

The Surrey County Council bought in July 1930 540 hectares of Norbury Park for £ 85,000 (now about £ 4,846,000), to protect the land from land speculators. This land is still owned by the county council, which manages it for the Surrey Wildlife Trust .

Marie Stopes , the British scientist and author, lived in the Norbury Park mansion from 1938 to 1958. She was an active advocate of sex education and birth control in the early 1920s. Her book Married Love , published in 1918, was the first handbook of sexuality whose language was simple enough to be understood by the general public. In 1921 she opened the first birth control clinic in London . After her death in 1958, she bequeathed Norbury Park to the Royal Society of Literature , of which she was a member. The house was later sold to Philip Spencer , an industrialist.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ D. Williams: A Late Bronze Age Hoard from Norbury Park, Mickleham in Surrey Archaeological Collections . Surrey Archaeological Society. Issue 94 (2008). Pp. 293-301.
  2. ^ A b c Norbury Park: Summer all the winter in The Times . April 13, 1934. p. 17.
  3. ^ A b Ronald Shepard: Mickleham: The story of parish . Mickleham Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-9518305-0-3 .
  4. ^ Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division in The Times . July 6, 1916. p. 4.
  5. ^ The Estate Market in The Times . September 16, 1916. p. 11.
  6. ^ The Estate Market in The Times . August 23, 1922. p. 10.
  7. ^ Norbury Park in The Times . July 30, 1930. p. 14.
  8. ^ Norbury Park Plaque to Marie Stopes in The Times . May 2, 1961. p. 7.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 14.5 "  N , 0 ° 20 ′ 19.7"  W.