Keydell House
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Keydell House[1] was situated in Script error: No such module "convert". of land near Lovedean Corner,[2] in the village of Horndean, part of the ecclesiastical parish of Catherington[3] Hampshire from Georgian times until its demolition to make way for houses in 1968.
History
The earliest deed still in existence (for the field "Nine Acres") is dated 1660.[4] The House itself was a three-storey, rectangular mansion with shuttered windows and formal gardens.[5] These eventually became Keydell Nurseries, although the business which still trades under that name moved to a bigger site in 1987.[6] The House had two notable owners: the Victorian actor Edmund Kean;[7] and, most famously, Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe, a full general of the British Army.[8]
Notes
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- ↑ Hampshire Register of Historic Parks and Gardens: Revised Deposit HBDWLP (Environment Department, Hampshire County Council, The Castle, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 8UE)
- ↑ Williams' Guide and Timetable to some of the Beauty Spots on the Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway, July 1913
- ↑ Victoria County History A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 Page, W(Ed) 1908 pp 94-101
- ↑ Havant Museum, Local History Collection, Horndean Collection, Vol 4 (Keydell): autobiographical notebook of Margaret Strange, Keydell resident 1928-53)
- ↑ Horndean 2000 Singleton, B. (1999, Horndean, Horndean Parish Council
- ↑ Current user of Keydell name
- ↑ Hampshire County Council's page on Horndean Template:Webarchive
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1931 map of site
