West Horsley Place
Untouched for decades, West Horsley Place is a mediaeval manor house unexpectedly inherited by Bamber Gascoigne, the television presenter, and vested in a charitable trust to enable its repair.
Epsom Road, Surrey, KT24 6AN
West Horsley Place is a Grade I listed medieval manor house and estate of great beauty and historic significance.
Left almost untouched for a century West Horsley Place has romantic and fragile beauty. The estate at West Horsley Place has an illustrious line of owners and visitors stretching back to the Norman Conquest. King Henry VIII visited for an extravagant 35-course lunch hosted by his cousin Henry Courtenay, to whom he had given West Horsley Place as a gift, only to have him beheaded two years later. Queen Elizabeth I stayed here for a week in August 1559 whilst visiting her childhood friend Elizabeth Fitzgerald (The Fair Geraldine).
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