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Bedwell Park House Published L. Dunkley, Post Office, Essenden Printed in Berlin circa 1910
Bedwell Park, half a mile south [from Essendon Village], the property of Mrs Culling Hanbury, is now occupied by Charles George Arbuthnot esq.; the grounds are 887 acres in extent. Kelly's Directory, 1912 |
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On the 15th inst. Sir Culling Eardley Smith, Bart. of Bedwell Park, Wm. Hudson, Esq. of Frogmore Lodge, and Patrick Beales, sq. of Cambridge, were elected Directors of the Herts and Cambridge Fire Office, to fill up the vacancies in the third and seventh lists. Cambridge Chronicle (23 July, 1830) |
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1881 Census
In addition Frederic Rose was the butler, living in Bedwell Lodge. William Martin and Walter William Burr were gardeners living in the bothy. David McKinlay was the farm bailiff and there were several labourers living in the Lodge cottages. |
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Drawing Room Bedwell Park House Publisher: Dunckley, Essendon H.561 Posted 1917 |
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ARBUTHNOT, Charles George, M.A., Director of Bank of England; b. 1846; s. of John Alves Arbuthnot, of Coworth Park, Berks. Educ.: Eton; Merton Coll. Oxford. After leaving Oxford, travelled abroad, and has since been mainly occupied in Banking House of Messrs. Arbuthnot, Latham and Co., of which he has been a partner for many years. Address: 69 Eaton Square, S. W.; T: Victoria 2933; Bedwell Park, Hatfield, Herts. Clubs: Athenaem, Carlton, St. James's, Wellington, Burling ton Fine Arts. Who's Who, 1918 |
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Bedwell House (Royal Victoria Patriotic School). A rambling building of two to three stories. Late c17 with later additions, especially of c. 1840 and 1860. The exterior now Tudor, gabled, with diapered brickwork. Entrance front with battlemented tower of 1851. (Early C17 staircase, probably brought in. DOE) Ornate lodges of 1860. The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, 1977 |
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The Royal Patriotic Fund (RPF) was created in 1854. Queen Victoria, concerned for the well-being of the widows and orphans of British servicemen dying in the Crimean War, made an appeal for public donations. As a result the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Girls was opened in Wandsworth in 1859. Subsequently re-named the Royal Victoria Patriotic School, it evacuated to Saundersfoot in South Wales for the duration of the Second World War. Deciding that the Wandsworth premises were too large for their needs, the School's Committee of Management opted for a new post-war location and so in 1946 the school moved to Bedwell Park at Essendon, near Hatfield in Hertfordshire. In response to falling numbers of applicants, the School in 1959 expanded its scope to accept daughters of living servicemen, but it was finally closed in 1972. |
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As a result of proposed redevelopments a detailed historical review was carries out in 2006 - including many detailed maps. |
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