These grounds were the estate acquired for and by Henrietta Howard a mistress of the Prince of Wales who became George II. He made a settlement on her of £11,500 and gifts of jewellery, furniture and furnishings. A trustee of the settlement was Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay and later 3rd Duke of Argyll. At this time he was the new owner of Whitton Place near Twickenham and he acquired for Henrietta the land on which the house stands. The estate was extended over the years from the 11.5 acres he first bought to the present 66.5 acres of Marble Hill Park. In 1901 the house was in the ownership of the Cunard family who were in the process of constructing roads and sewers for a speculative development on the site. A conference of various local authorities in that year resulted in its purchase and vestment in the London County Council. On the magma of local authority change it has now passed via the Greater London Council, who carried out a major restoration in 1965-6, to English Heritage.

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Marble Hill House

Rural Walks around Richmond