Chippenham Park

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. 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. A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. 10. 2002. pp. 370–374. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  3. "History of Chippenham Park". Chippenham Park Gardens. Retrieved 30 May 2015.

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