Kingston Lisle Park

There was a village on the site since at least the Middle Ages; the Domesday Book recorded 31 households in 1086. There was a manor house on the site during the 13th century. In 1336, Alice de Lisle (granddaughter of Henry I FitzGerold) had a licence to impark 200 acres of woods and 100 acres of land, and the estate became the seat for the Barony of Lisle for two centuries. In 1538, the estate was sold to William Hyde of Denchworth. Sir George Hyde likely built a Jacobean mansion on the site. Some Jacobean elements remain on different buildings on the estate. The mansion was sold to Abraham Atkins in 1749. Edwin Martin-Atkins (1778–1825) commissioned architect Richard Pace to add the wings…