Ashdown Park, Berkshire
Historical Description
Ashdown Park, the seat of the Earl of Craven, in Berks, on a high desolate spot, among bleak downs, near Ridgeway or Icknield Street, 3 miles SSW of White Horse Vale, and 3½ NW of Lambourn. The house was built by Webb, the nephew of Inigo Jones, is in the same style as Coleshill, and contains interesting family portraits. Stones called the Grey Wethers, having some resemblance to a flock of sheep, the remains of a stratum of Bagshot sand, similar in nature to the stones of Stonehenge and Avebury, lie on the turf around the house, and a small circular camp, known as Alfred's Castle, lies to the E.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Berkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Ashdown Park are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Berkshire papers online: