Английская Википедия:High Elms Country Park
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High Elms Country Park is an extensive Шаблон:Convert public park on the North Downs in Farnborough in the London Borough of Bromley. It is a Local Nature Reserve,[1][2] and together with the neighbouring Downe Bank, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[3] The park surrounds High Elms Golf Course, and has extensive woodland, chiefly oak and beech, chalk meadows and formal gardens. It also has a cafe, a visitor centre, nature and history trails and car parks.
The idverde Countryside Team, who manage Bromley owned parks, are based at High Elms.[4]
There is access from High Elms Road and Shire Lane.
History
The history of the High Elms estate can be traced back to the Norman Conquest, when it was given by William the Conqueror to his half-brother, Odo, bishop of Bayeux. For successive generations afterwards the land occupied now by the golf course was given over to farming. In 1809[5] a wealthy London banker and Member of Parliament, John William Lubbock,[6] bought the 260 acres that we now know as the High Elms Estate as a country residence,[7] and in 1840 the astronomer and banker Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet[8] inherited it.[9] He built a grand new mansion in the Italian style.[7] After Charles Darwin moved in 1842 into the nearby Down House on the other side of the village of Downe,[10] Lubbock's son, also called John Lubbock, the fourth baronet and later Baron Avebury, befriended him, being a frequent visitor to Down House.[11]
In 1938 the estate was sold to Kent County Council and the house became a nurses' training centre. In 1965 the area became part of the London Borough of Bromley, and the estate was transferred to the new borough. The land then became public open space, but in 1967 the mansion burnt down.[7]
Listed buildings
There are the following Grade II Listed Buildings in and around the park:
- Eighteenth-century gate piers and wrought iron railings[12]
- Cuckoo Lodge[13]
- Eton fives court, built about 1840[14]
- Grotto, constructed between 1885 and 1896[15]
- Ice well, constructed about 1850[16]
- Old Lodge, early nineteenth-century cottage[17]
- Outhouse at the Clock House, probably a granary with a horse gin, early nineteenth century[18]
- Stone garden shelter, circa 1913[19]
- The Clock House, early nineteenth-century stables of High Elms converted to a house[20]
BEECHE
Bromley Council has established the Bromley Environmental Education Centre at High Elms (BEECHE) at the park, with environmental programmes for schools and public events in the school holidays.[21]
See also
- Bromley parks and open spaces
- List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in London
- List of Local Nature Reserves in Greater London
- The Friends of High Elms
References
External links
- London Borough of Bromley, High Elms Country Park Local Nature Reserve
- https://www.bromleyparks.co.uk/beeche/
- Natural England, Nature on the Map, Downe Bank & High Elms (SSSI)
- Gardens of Kent, High Elms Country Park
- London Borough of Bromley, High Elms Trail
- Hidden London, High Elms
- High Elms Golf Club, Historic High Elms
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- ↑ London Borough of Bromley, Countryside Service
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- ↑ 7,0 7,1 7,2 Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ Timothy L. Alborn, Sir John William Lubbock, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
- ↑ https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20070822120000/http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-637.html Шаблон:Bare URL inline
- ↑ R. B. Freeman, Charles Darwin, A Companion, 1978, Darwin Online, Sir John Lubbock
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, 4 Gate Piers and Wrought Iron Railings, Bromley
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, Cuckoo Lodge, Bromley
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, Eton Fives Court, Orpington
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, Grotto at High Elms Country Park, Orpington
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, Ice Well, Orpington
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, Old Lodge, Bromley
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, Outhouse at the Clock House, Bromley
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, Stone Garden Shelter at High Elms Country Park, Orpington
- ↑ British Listed Buildings, The Clock House, Bromley
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