Heathfield Park

Heathfield Park

Heathfield Park is an English country house and walled park in the village of Old Heathfield in East Sussex. Originally called Bayley Park, this mansion was begun by James Plummer in 1677 and continued by Raymond Blackmore in the early eighteenth century. It was altered and enlarged in 1766 by Robert (later Sir Robert) Taylor for General George Augustus Eliott (created Lord Heathfield in 1787), who owned the house until his death in 1790. It was renamed Heathfield Park after him in 1791 by his successor Francis Newbery, son of the publisher John Newbery; Newbery hired Humphrey Repton to landscape the park. From 1819 to 1890, Heathfield Park was the seat of the baronets of the Blunt family. In 1895 it was remodeled in Georgian Revival style, brick facing being substituted for stucco, and the south-east wing being added, by Sir Reginald Blomfield for W. C. Alexander. ["Heathfield Park: A private estate and a Wealden town" (1996) Roy Pryce]

In one corner of the park stands the Gibraltar Tower, built by Newbery to commemorate Lord Heathfield’s defense of Gibraltar.

Heathfield Park is privately owned.

ite of Special Scientific Interest

A section of the park has been given SSSI status. Its biological interest due to the habitats provided by the ghyll woodland. The lichen population is important on a county level. [cite web|url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/sssi_details.cfm?sssi_id=1001675 |title=Natural England - SSSI|accessdate=2008-10-11|publisher=English Nature]

References

External links

* [http://www.theweald.org/m13.asp?PicIdto=9900394 Heathfield Park ca. 1830]
* [http://www.follytowers.com/gibraltar.html Gibraltar Tower]


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