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Map showing the location of Worcester Park House within Surrey. Worcester Park House, built in 1607, [1] whose ruins are in Surrey, in the United Kingdom, was one of the residences of the 4th Earl of Worcester, who was appointed Keeper of the Great Park of nearby Nonsuch Palace in 1606.
- Worcester Park House
- Introduction
- The Taylors
- Explosion at The Mill
- Sir James Pennethorne
The birth, life and death of a grand estate 1878-1961 Worcester Park (1828) The Seat of William Taylor Esqre To whom this View is most respectfully inscribed by his obedient & humble Servant, G F Prosser Image source: Epsom & Ewell Local & Family History Centre
There was an estate here long before 1797, which is covered briefly under the Manor of Nonsuch, but this piece concerns the ‘new’ Worcester Park House as rebuilt by Mr William Taylor in 1797. GF Prosser, in his book ‘Selected Illustrations of the County of Surrey’, published in 1828, gives us a potted history of the estate, as follows. Worcester Pa...
There is very little available information about the Taylors, but we do know that William Senior, the gunpowder manufacturer, who died in 1764, was at some point a ship’s chandler in Wapping; he had built the Worcester Park Gunpowder Mills (also known as Tolworth Mills, Malden Mills and Long Ditton Mills) on the Hogsmill River in 1720 and an accoun...
It is true to say that gunpowder mills exploded quite often and you can find more about the subject on this website in the article entitled Gunpowder Mills. Ewell had already experienced a troubled history with its facility, which you can read about here, and in 1849 the manufactory at Worcester Park blew up. The following report appeared in The Su...
Pennethorne was born in Worcester in 1801 and became an architect; the people with whom he trained and worked were superstars in that world, such as August Pugin (designer of Alton Towers – not the theme park portion – and the interior of the Palace of Westminster) and John Nash (designer of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, much of Buckingham Palace...
Worcester Park House, built in 1607, whose ruins are in Surrey, in the United Kingdom, was one of the residences of the 4th Earl of Worcester, who was appointed Keeper of the Great Park in 1606. In 1670 a long lease of the house and park was granted to Sir Robert Long, 1st Baronet, by Charles II.
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Worcester Park House, built in 1607, whose ruins are in Surrey, in the United Kingdom, was one of the residences of the 4th Earl of Worcester, who was appointed Keeper of the Great Park of nearby Nonsuch Palace in 1606. Map showing the location of Worcester Park House within Surrey.
Worcester Park is a suburban town in South West London, England. It lies in the London boroughs of Sutton and Kingston, and partly in the Surrey borough of Epsom and Ewell. The area is 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Charing Cross. The suburb's population was 16,031 at the time of the 2001 census.
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Worcester Park House was a house whose ruins stand in Worcester Park in Surrey. This was one of the residences of the Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester, who was appointed Keeper of the Great Park of nearby Nonsuch Palace in 1606. The house was destroyed by fire in 1948. The remains are almost vanished beneath the woods of the grounds. Contents
