Henbury,_Dorset

Henbury, Dorset

Henbury, Dorset

Hamlet in Dorset, England

Henbury is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, England. It lies on the A31 road.

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Henbury House is a classical Georgian house built in 1770.[1] In the 19th century the estate was held by the Parke family. In the 1870s two members of the family emigrated to Australia and founded Henbury Station, a cattle station some 140 km south of Alice Springs, near where the Henbury Crater was discovered in 1899.

Henbury House (renamed Henbury Hall) was the subject of a failed holiday time-share scheme in the 1980s which was designed to cover the cost of its refurbishment. In 1982 the then owners Charles and Susan Maitland offered bonds for sale at £500 each, guaranteeing investors a week's family holiday a year in the house for five years.[2] This was followed by a second Bond issue in 1983 at £1500. However, the venture failed during 1984 and in 1985 the property was sold to Roy and Guy Baylis. The Maitlands filed for bankruptcy which was completed in 1988 with a dividend of 24 pence in the pound for creditors.[3] A private housing development called Henbury House Gardens was then built on the land surrounding the house.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "East Dorset County Council: Areas of Great Landscape Vale (June 1997)".
  2. [2]
    "HENBURY HALL, DORSET". Archived from the original on 4 February 2019.
  3. [3]
    London Gazette, 7 January 1988, p 181
  4. [4]
    "HENBURY HOUSE GARDENS RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.

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