Park Place, Berkshire

Historical Description

Park Place, a seat on the N border of Berks, 1 mile E by S of Henley-on-Thames. It was built originally by Marshall Conway, was altered by Holland for the Earl of Malmes-bury, passed to Shakerley of Somerford, and was rebuilt by the late Mr Noble. The park has an area of about 900 acres, and includes beautiful hanging woods upon a chalk cliff, a fine cedar planted by George III., and a Druidical circle of forty-five stones, 66 feet in circumference, removed hither in 1785 from Jersey.

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Berkshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Park Place 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:

• Reading Mercury
• Windsor and Eton Express
• Berkshire Chronicle