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Clandon Park House is an early 18th-century grade I listed Palladian mansion in West Clandon, near Guildford in Surrey. [1]It stands in the south east corner of Clandon Park, a 220-hectare (540-acre) agricultural parkland estate which has been the seat of the Earls of Onslow for over two centuries.
Sutton Place, 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east [n 1] of Guildford in Surrey, is a large Grade I listed [1] Tudor prodigy house built c. 1525 [2] by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541), a courtier of Henry VIII. It is of importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate Renaissance design elements in English architecture.
It includes more than 600 historic structures, most built between the late 17th and early 20th centuries, reflecting the town's growth and history during that time. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] The town center has been listed as a census-designated place (CDP) since 2008.
Dapdune Wharf is a former industrial wharf and boat yard on the Wey and Godalming Navigations in Guildford, England, UK, close to the Surrey County Cricket Club ground. It is now maintained by the National Trust.
The combined flow continues to Godalming, cuts through the chalk of the North Downs at Guildford, and passes through the Surrey Hills National Landscape to join the River Thames at Weybridge. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It had been used by small boats since medieval times, [ 3 ] and some improvements were made to the channel from 1618.
The area is rich in fossil deposits with nearly 150 species of plants identified. The park is home to large herds of bison, as well as grizzly bear and gray wolf. The park functions as a model system to understand the processes taking place in the ecosystem. The site was listed as endangered between 1995 and 2003 because of planned mining ...
This house, whose construction date is uncertain but believed to be in the mid-to-late 17th century, is quite possibly the oldest brick house in North America. It was probably built by Peter Tufts (1628–1702), an early settler of Medford. [159] It is owned by the Medford Historical Society, which seasonally offers tours. [160] 122
John Bartholomew mentions the place in his gazetteer of 1887 as a village in Shere parish, Surrey "4½ miles SE. of Guildford". [3] In the last decade of the 19th century a road from Ewhurst , practicable for wheeled vehicles, was the first one brought into Peaslake as district councils were instituted . [ 2 ]