Park Place and Temple Combe, Henley, England

This site is NOT open to public.

Brief description of site

Park Place and Temple Combe have later 18th century landscape park and gardens which at its most extensive covered about 360 hectares. The park contains a 'Druids Temple' or Neolithic chambered tomb, brought from Jersey and reconstructed in 1785. The park is now in divided ownership, the 'Druids Temple' being situated at Temple Combe. A golf course has been constructed in the north-east corner of the park.

Brief history of site

In 1719 Mrs Elizabeth Baker sold land called Park's Place to Lord Archibald Hamilton, who at some time after this erected a Palladian mansion called Park Place on a new site. General the Hon Henry Seymour Conway enlarged the parkland during the 1760s-1780s. The house was rebuilt in about 1871, following a fire. The grounds were subject to extensive `landscape gardening' carried out under Robert Marnock in about 1869.

Location information:

OS Landranger Map Sheet Number:	175	Grid Ref:	SU777821
Latitude:	51.53247	Longitude:	-0.8812229

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