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Late 18th-century parkland survives at Salperton Park along with gardens and pleasure grounds dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The manor was granted to Winchester College at the Dissolution of the monasteries, and remained in their possession until the mid-19th century. Part of the early house is dated 1616, but this has been completely remodelled. The Browne family acquired leases on the land and by the late 18th century John Browne was reported as having 'a very good stone built house near the church in which he resides'. This is shown in a painting of that time set in an obviously new landscape setting. In 1817 new wings were added by Richard Pace.
The house stayed in the family until 1900 when it was bought by G L Foster-Harter who employed F W Waller to modernise and extend it. The gardens would also appear to have undergone some changes at this time, although the parkland to the west appears to have remained intact. Parkland to the east appears to have been cleared, but this would have been of less importance to the setting of the house, being divided from it by the kitchen gardens and orchards and located at some distance to the rear. Changes elsewhere principally reflect alterations to the pleasure grounds and woodland walk to the north, the removal of what may be a fountain, and the conversion of some orchard to what appears to be kitchen gardens.
Until the arrival of mains power in the 1950s, electricity for the village of Salperton was generated at Salperton Park.
4th & 5th November 2023