Eastbury Park was an estate in Eastbury near Northwood,

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History

The house was designed by

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and built by a Mr Harding in the

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for David Carnegie. Completed in 1857, the house was sold to Frank Carew in 1887 and then sold on to the

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for use as an officers' mess for

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in 1938. It burnt down in 1969.

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