Frimley Park in

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, consists of Frimley Park mansion, a Grade II

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, and the formal gardens, designed by Edward White in 1920. The house and gardens are all that remain of an estate that once encompassed more than . Since 1949 it has belonged to the

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(now the

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), and currently hosts an Army Cadet training centre.

History

The estate of Frimley Manor was sold by

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to James Lawrell the elder for £20,000 in 1789. In 1806 the estate was divided.

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the younger kept what was referred to as Frimley Manor, while Frimley Park mansion and of land were sold to John Tekells. cites Wellard 1995. In the early 1860s most of the estate was parcelled up and sold off. The house with of land was purchased by the Whig

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William Crompton-Stansfield William Rookes Crompton-Stansfield (3 August 17905 December 1871) of Esholt Hall, Yorkshire, and Frimley Park, Surrey, was a British landowner and Whig politician who was MP for Huddersfield, Yorkshire, from 1837 to 1853. Background Crompt ...

in 1862. Theodore Alexander Ralli bought the estate in 1920, and commissioned Edward White ( 1873–1952) to lay out a formal rose garden and sunken garden. In 1947 (shortly after the end of World War II) more land was sold separately and the remaining was purchased by the Officers' Association who two years later (in 1949) sold what remained of the estate to the current owners, the War Department (now the Ministry of Defence).

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