Entrance gate to Clarendon Park - geograph

Clarendon Park is a Grade I

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and

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located a short distance east of the city of

Salisbury Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wi ...

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, England. According to the 2011 census the population of the parish was 246. The parish is almost entirely farmland, with parkland and gardens around the 18th-century house. In the southwest the parish extends to the Petersfinger area on the western outskirts of Salisbury, and the west bank of the Salisbury Avon. The Clarendon Way recreational footpath passes through the parish.

History

Part or all of Clarendon Forest was once known as ''Penchet''. This name derives from

Common Brittonic Common Brittonic (; ; ), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, is a Celtic language historically spoken in Britain and Brittany from which evolved the later and modern Brittonic languages. It is a form of Insular Cel ...

, from the words found today in modern Welsh as ("head, end, summit") and ("woodland"). Thus the name once meant "end of the wood". Clarendon Forest housed a royal hunting lodge in the 12th century, which was expanded into a royal palace in the 13th. In the 16th century the buildings reverted to a hunting lodge and were then abandoned. Today only foundations and part of one wall survive.

House

The mansion known as Clarendon House or Clarendon Park is south-east of the site of the palace. It was completed in 1737 for Peter Bathurst, MP for

, a member of the wealthy Bathurst slave-trading family, and remodelled internally in 1814 and 1920. After having been passed down the Hervey-Bathurst family, it was occupied by Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 3rd Baronet, from 1824 to 1881, and then by his son

Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet Sir Frederick Thomas Arthur Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet (13 March 1833 – 20 May 1900) was an English first-class cricketer and Conservative politician. Hervey-Bathurst served in the British Army with the Grenadier Guards prior to his politic ...

, until 1900. Around 1920, Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 5th Baronet, sold it to a Christie-Miller. Around 1979, 19th-century service additions on the west side were demolished. The estate was bought by Marc Jonas and his wife in 2006. The house was designated as

Grade I listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...

in 1960.

References

External links

Clarendon Park Parish Council
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