Holnest Park Dorset

[clarebee]

Nothing to do with bees!(one of my winter projects which is now extending into April )

Does anyone have information on Holnest Park in the 19th century?? I've searched the web intensively, so I'm meaning printed matter and/or photographs etc.

Would be great, thanks.

 

[Russel]

Hi Clare,
Sorry can't help but just been listening to Radio 4 "Woman's Hour" (sorry) re: 'Country houses in time of war' is a new exhibition commemorating the beginning of the First World War 100 years ago'. Maybe they can point you in the right direction?
Woman's Hour

 

[MuswellMetro]

Appears to have been built in 1802 by Mr Davis and rebiult the late 1840s by Drax family as a second house for the Charborough estate, you might find more under Charborough estate than Holnest

http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2011/01/three-cheers-for-sawbridge-drax/

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nh8hAAAAMAAJ&q=holnest#search_anchor

http://archive.org/stream/theregistersofho00holn/theregistersofho00holn_djvu.txt

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...0CHkQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Davis Holnest&f=false

http://census.ukga.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?action=ViewRec&DB=1&page=13&district=5&folio=60&piece=2006

http://www.drakesfamily2.webspace.virginmedia.com/id50.htm



Had a friend who bought a flat conversion in the House

 

[BeeJayBee]

I expect you've tried the County Record Office and Local History groups? There are also, often, postcards of big houses.

 

[MuswellMetro]

I expect you've tried the County Record Office and Local History groups? There are also, often, postcards of big houses.

national archive has the papers

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=F1860

and this is the tythe map 1846

 

[clarebee]

Thank you to all for taking time to give it a think.
@ Russel no need to apologize for Woman's Hour This all started with something I heard on Radio 4!
@ MM Special thanks for the good ideas on the National Archives and Charborough. The Wicked Squire is just what I was looking for. My great great grandfather was born 1843 in Holnest and became a gamekeeper. One of his census records show that the family was living in Sandling, Kent, probably he was working at Sandling House. I was wondering what had induced them to move so far. So the snippet "In fact, the Sawbridges were a wealthy landed family in their own right with a large estate at Olantigh near Wye in Kent" may well be a fruitful hint. I shall certainly follow this up! It could well be the missing link. Thanks