<strong>Denford</strong> <strong>Park</strong>, <strong>Kintbury</strong>, Berkshire The site of the present <strong>Denford</strong> <strong>Park</strong> (then still 'House') is shown on Thomas Moule's map of Berkshire, first published in 1830, though the scale means that it is shown only as a small square set in parkland. 31 A slightly more detailed map of 1844 clearly shows the evolving parkland, the walled garden and stables - as well as the outline of the mansion and its outbuildings and the new church. After he died in 1848, Cherry was succeeded by his eldest son, George Charles Cherry, who also served as Sheriff of Berkshire (in 1871) and who, in 1873, owned nearly 770 acres of land in the county. 32 For many years George Cherry lived at <strong>Denford</strong> with his widowed mother, Charlotte, and his two unmarried younger sisters, Louise and Rachel. George Charles Cherry is variously described as a 'landed proprietor' and a 'barrister not in practice' in the census returns and, in 1881, as a JP. The family lived in some style at <strong>Denford</strong> and had a large number of servants. For example, in 1871 there was a butler, footman, cook, ladies' maid, two housemaids, two laundry maids, a kitchen maid, a coachman and a groom. When George died, unmarried, in 1887, <strong>Denford</strong> went to his brother, Major-General Apsley Cherry; Apsley Cherry was then 54 years old and had an interesting military career, serving with the 90 th Light Infantry during the Indian Mutiny of 1857-60, the relief of Lucknow in the Gaika War of 1878, and the Battle of Ulundi during the Zulu Warofl879. 33 In March 1885 he had married Evelyn Sharpin of Bedford who was 25 years his junior; their first child, Apsley junior, was born a year later and would be followed by two daughters, Ida and Elsie. Major-General Cherry retired from the Army in 1887 and at the time of the 1891 census was living at what was then called <strong>Denford</strong> <strong>Park</strong> with his wife and three young children, his still unmarried sister Rachel (who had probably never left), and several servants - a butler, housekeeper, lady's maid, nursemaid, two housemaids, a kitchen maid and a laundry maid. In the following year, 1892, he inherited Lamer <strong>Park</strong>, near Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, from his mother, Charlotte's, side of the family, adding the second part of her maternal surname, Drake-Garrard, and the coat of arms of that family, to his own. 34 31 Moule, T, 1990, The County Maps of Old England, 23; this is a modern reprint and assemblage of maps originally published in 1830 in The English Counties Delineated 32 HMSO, 1875, Return of Owners of Land, 1873; Vol. I, Berkshire, 4 33 Kelly's, 1892, Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes, 250 34 Pottle, M, 2004, 'Garrard, Apsley George Bennet Cherry- (1886-1959)', DNB, Vol.21, 511; also, the change of name was listed in the London Gazette -12- Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA
<strong>Denford</strong> <strong>Park</strong>. Kintburv. Berkshire >:^v^r>/t Fig.4: Detail of <strong>Denford</strong> <strong>Park</strong> estate from the late-19 th century Ordnance Survey plan, showing relationship between house, church, stables and walled gardens, etc. Tw m- ^ • ' • - --*-* «.^ * ~ •"*•*.*•* I : ^ ** *.** »* Fig.5: Detail from Ordnance Survey map of circa 1910 of the house. -13- Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SY5 OEA
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