GAYHURST Manor
The small Hamlet and Manor of Gayhurst has had more than its share of History, Romance, Intrigue and Adventure than it has a right to expect.
Situated in a remote northern corner of the County of Buckinghamshire, you might expect that little of consequence had ever happened here?
How wrong you would be….
- Life and death in the Bronze Age
- Occupation by the Romans.
- Home to Leofwine, a kinsman of King Harold (both killed at Battle of Hastings)
- Tenanted by William the Conqueror’s treacherous half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux.
- Given to Sir Francis Drake by Good Queen Bess.
- Home of Sir Everard Digby Gunpowder Plotter.
- Leased to Lord Carrington, by Lady Macdonald
- Residence of Sir Walter Carlile M.P.
- Owned by Lord Hesketh.
- A satellite of The Bletchley Park codebreakers.
- Owned by The Bank of Switzerland as a store
- Converted into the Rodbourne boy’s boarding college.
- and finally – Development into a series of private dwellings in the 1970s
Actually a place of some interest! more…