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Chippenham Park

Chippenham Park

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Chippenham Park is a country house in Chippenham, Cambridgeshire.

Chippenham Park

History

The Chippenham Park Estate was acquired by Thomas Revett, a London merchant, in 1558. It passed to the Russell family around 1600 and the present house was commissioned by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford in 1689.[1] It was acquired by John Tharp in 1791[2] and remained in the ownership of the Tharp family until 1948 when it inherited by a nephew Basil Bacon.[1] It remained in the Bacon family until it was inherited by Mr and Mrs Eustace Crawley in 1985. The house is now a wedding venue.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Wareham, A F; Wright, A P M (2002). "'Chippenham: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely". Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire), London. pp. 374–379. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  2. [2]
    A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Vol. 10. 2002. pp. 370–374. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  3. [3]
    "History of Chippenham Park". Chippenham Park Gardens. Retrieved 30 May 2015.

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