Article entitled "A History of Wilton Park" including three photographs
Article including descriptions of the owners and usage of Wilton Park, including: reference to the Burnham Hundreds, ownership passage to Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of Romans, brother of King Henry III. Then passage of ownership passing to Missenden Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century, when it was given to de Wheltons. Then owned by various families until Henry VIII sold the estate to different families including Edmund Waller the poet. The White House was built in the eighteenth century. William Du Pre inherited the estate in 1896 which began the military connection. It was leased to the War Office in the early twentieth century. In 1942 it became a special prisoner of war camp to interrogate and debrief of senior German prisoners. In 1946 -1950 it became a Training Centre and Army School of Administration , the next fifty years Wilton Park estate was the Depot of the RAEC.
Creator
Anglim, S.J.Date of creation
[1990-2010]Date of coverage
1184-2000Place
Beaconsfield, Wilton ParkContributor
Scott-Taggart, ElizabethCopyright
Anglim, S.J.Reference number
B-WP/A/001Format
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