The Dowty Years
The Dowty Group was a leading British manufacturer of aircraft equipment. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE Index. The company had its origins as the Aircraft Components Company in 1931 and the work of British inventor...
The Brockhampton Divorce
An article researched and specially written for the Park's website by Chris Hale. In 1872, Fulwar Craven’s grandson and heir, Fulwar John Colquitt Craven, a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, met Sarah (Essie) Llewellyn Dillwyn in London. She was the fourth child of...
Brockhampton’s Brewery
A local landmark, a tall brick chimney visible from afar, stands out among the Cotswold stone buildings of Brockhampton. It and its associated buildings, comprising a large malt house, brewery building and brewery cottage, are what are left of a once thriving brewery...
What is a “Listed” Building?
Brockhampton Park is a “Listed” building, which means it is one that has been placed on one of several statutory lists – the National Heritage Lists – maintained by Historic England. Officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England,...
‘Mishap’ at Klippan
The Second Boer War, now most often referenced as the South African War, was the second of two wars between Britain and the republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State (to use the nomenclature of the time). The Boers were descendants of the Dutch, German and...
A History of Brockhampton Park
A reader view may be obtainable by clicking on the left end of the browser search bar. The original Brockhampton Park house was built around 1640 for Paul Pert, Serjeant1of the Counting House2for King Charles I, a notable position at the time. He had been acquiring...
Brockhampton Park’s Literary Connection
Tenuous though it may be, one of Brockhampton Park’s previous occupants had an indirect connection to Jane Austen, the famed female novelist of the early 1800s. Elizabeth Craven (1687–1777), widow of Charles Craven, one-time governor of the Province of South Carolina...