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The History of Hursley Park

635 - 1543

Anglo-Saxon & Medieval

The Manor of Merdon

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1648 - 1718

Cromwell

Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector and his children

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1825 - 1902

Victorian

Heathcote & Baxendale

Keble and the Victorian Gentleman

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1914 - 1918

The Great War

Army & RFC in grounds, Hospital for Officers in House & US Hospital

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1940 - 1945

World War II

Army returns to Hursley for DDay as Park filled with Soldiers.

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1946 - 1961

Post War Hursley

A changing world as Hursley begins to open to outside infulences

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1544 - 1648

Tudor & Stuart

Hursley Park & 
The Great Lodge

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1718 - 1825

Georgian

The Heathcote family and Hursley Park House

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1902 - 1914

Edwardian

Cooper family 

Hursley Park extended & fabulous weath

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1918 - 1939

Inter-War

A return to a quiet life, Gertude Jeykell & aging owners

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1940 - 1958

Supermarine

Home of the Spitfire. Supermarine WWII & the Cold War

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1958 + 

IBM

IBM setups up its Development Laboratory

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