The Elms (Bedhampton)

The Elms is an historic house in Old Bedhampton, near Havant, Hampshire in England. It was built in the 17th Century and improved in the Gothic revival style during the 18th [ Page,W(Ed) Bedhampton: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 (1908), pp. 142-44 ] . Midway through the 19th century the owner, Sir Theophilus Lee [ His family vault lies in the nearby churchyard Burrows, D The Parish of Bedhampton ( 1998 Bedhampton, Bedhampton Parish Church) ] , invited his second cousin Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, to dine there, commissioning a room [ "The Waterloo Room" is open to the public one week-end a year during The Elms Spring Bank Holiday Fund Raising events.] in his honour [ Palmer, A Bedhampton Village Trail (2000, Bedhampton, Bedhampton Society)] . Lee's son, Authur, was MP for Havant at the end of the 19th century [ [http://www.bedhamptoncc.co.uk Local Cricket Club Web Site] ] . Today it forms part of the Manor Trust [ [http://www.manortrust.org.uk Trust Web-Site] ] , a housing charity providing sheltered accommodation for elderly local residents.

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