The Gatehouse website record for Chobham Park

In the civil parish of Chobham. In the historic county of Surrey (Modern Authority of Surrey, 1974 county of Surrey).

The old double-moated manor-house on the site of the present Chobham Park House remained with the Abbey until in 1537 Abbott John Cordrey, ‘granted’ it to Henry VIII. Perhaps because the hunting hereabouts was so fine, the King kept the Manor of Chobham for his own use. We know that he visited it in 1538 and again in 1542. He may well have stayed in the old manor house on this site. More certainly we know that Henry’s daughter, Queen Mary, sold it in July 1558 to her chancellor, Nicholas Heath [1501c-1578], Archbishop of York, for £3,000. The five-hundred-acre parcel of land was enclosed by a pale, thus earning the right to call itself a park. It is marked as a deer park on Norden and Speed’s map of 1610. (Bushel and Van Loock)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU98636278

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 250968
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 10917 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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