Broome Park, (also known as Broome Park Golf Club and Brome Park), Barham, England

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Brief description of site

Broome Park is a mid-17th-century wooded estate of 200 hectares surrounding a mansion of the same period. The house and grounds were considerably restored in the early-20th century, with the estate converted into a golf course designed by Donald Steel.

Brief history of site

Basil Dixwell built a mansion on a new site in the manor of Brome in the mid 1630s, surrounding it with walled gardens, orchards, and a park. A walled kitchen garden was built east of the mansion in 1652. Extensive and elaborate new gardens were laid out in the late-17th and early-18th century. The mansion was altered by James Wyatt in the late-1770s. After the sale of the estate to Field Marshal Kitchener in 1911, Detmar Blow and Ferdnand [sic] Billerey were employed to substantially remodel the house and provide a formal setting for it. Formal garden features were created on all but the north-west, entrance front, where a formal carriage approach was laid out.

Location information:

OS Landranger Map Sheet Number:	179	Grid Ref:	TR217486
Latitude:	51.19359	Longitude:	1.171581

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