Private footpath in Hurstbourne Park - geograph

Hurstbourne Park is a country house and 1200-acre estate near Whitchurch, Hampshire, England. The park and garden are

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

with Historic England since May 1984, "A late C18 landscape park and pleasure ground surrounding a late C19 house with formal terracing which incorporates a wooded deer park of C14 origin and surviving features from landscape designs of the early C18 by Thomas Archer." It has been owned by Sir Robert Oxenbridge, and his grandson, also Sir Robert, Sir Henry Farley, and his grandson,

John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth (15 April 1690 – 22 November 1762), of Hurstbourne Park, near Whitchurch and Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire, known as John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington from 1720 to 1743, was a British politician who sat in the ...

. John Wallop, 2nd Earl of Portsmouth inherited Hurstbourne in 1762, and from 1780 to 1785, a new house was built by John Meadows, designed by James Wyatt (1747-1813). In 1891, it burned down, and

Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth DL JP(11 January 1825 – 4 October 1891) was a British Peer and the son of Newton Fellowes, 4th Earl of Portsmouth and Lady Catharine Fortescue. Early life Portsmouth was born as Isaac Newton Fell ...

died a few months later. His son,

Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth JP, DL (19 January 1856 – 4 December 1917), styled Viscount Lymington until 1891, was a British Liberal politician but then joined the Liberal Unionist Party in 1886. He later switched back to the Liber ...

, had a new house built in 1891 to 1894. In 1936, the house and the deer park was sold to

Ossian Donner Ossian Donner (24 March 1866 – 2 August 1957) was a Finnish industrialist, engineer and diplomat. Biography Donner founded the wool mill in Hyvinkää and served as CEO of the United Wool Factory until 1918. He built a house on Mauritzgatan ...

, who gave it to his son Patrick Donner. During the Second World War it was used by the Bank of England, and Sir Patrick regained possession in 1947 and reduced the house to just under half its original size in 1965. In December 2000,

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and her then-husband Nicholas Fane bought the 1200-acre estate from the

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. A year later, they planned to demolish the remains of the 19th-century house and build a new one, whilst retaining the listed stable block, and the 19th century walled garden and pump house. They were planning on creating a semi-wild shooting estate.

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