Burderop Park

Burderop Park
Burderop Park
	Burderop House in 2008
	Location within Wiltshire
General information
Town or city	Hodson, Wiltshire
Country	England
Coordinates	51°31′12″N1°45′40″W / 51.5199°N 1.7612°W
Construction started	Early 17th century
Completed	18th century
Client	William Calley
Technical details
Structural system	Brick

Last updated January 14, 2025

Burderop Park is a Grade II* listed country manor house near Chiseldon, Wiltshire, England. The house was constructed in the early 17th century to a courtyard design, and was turned into a three-storey square house with bay windows during the 18th century. It is the manor house of the hamlet of Hodson, to the east.

History

The Calley family lived at Burderop for over two centuries; in 1649 William Calley was High Sheriff of Wiltshire and in 1807 Thomas Calley held the title. Thomas was married to Elizabeth Keck, daughter of Anthony James Keck of Stoughton Grange; they had a son John James Calley, who sold the estate to John Parkinson, who held the estate as a trustee for the Duke of Wellington. The estates of Broad Hinton and Salthrop House were also owned by Thomas Calley and his wife, and were sold in 1860 by the second Duke of Wellington to Anthony M. S. Maskelyne of Bassets Down.^[1] The estate was for a time known as Okebourne Chace.^[2]

World Wars

During World War I and World War II the estate was used as a training camp for the British army and Chiseldon Camp was established on the estate played host only to British forces, but in WW2 it became the very first camp to receive American troops, heralding a period that would see US forces concentrated at Chiseldon over the next couple of years. ^[3]

In World War 2 Burderop Park became home to the US 154th General Hospital, post WW2 the US military remained and the site became home to the 7505th USAF field hospital, treating American personnel and their families stationed in the UK until 1965 when the military left - offering to leave their medical equipment to the NHS. ^[4]^[5]It then became a NHS Hospital for long term mental patients closing in 1994 ^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Burderop Park was not the only military hospital in the area during WW2 , there being the US 130th Station Hospital at Chiseldon Camp and RAF Wroughton, later known as Princess Alexandra Hospital which opened in 1942, on which the RAF Flag was lowered in 1996. ^[11]

The 1959 Ordnance Survey map shows Burderop Park still with huts from the war (cell E3).

Post-war

The house was recorded as Grade II* listed in 1955.^[12]

The house post hospital closure became part of a complex of buildings used for commercialised agricultural landholding and office space for CH2M, and previously for the Halcrow Group.^[2] In 2023 the house was bought by a property developer to turn into a family home^[13] Within the House Grounds planning permission was granted for new build housing which has now been built in 2024 ^[14]^[15]

The former hospital site is to become the site of a Amazon Data Centre for which planning permission was granted in 2021 ^[16]^[17]^[18] The site had previously been occupied by Hewlett Packard from the late 1990's to 2020 using the site for a smaller data centre^[19]

Interior

The house has oak panelling and plaster ceilings dating from the 17th century, with 18th-century marble fireplaces. There is a painted coat of arms of William Calley dated 1663 over the original fireplace in a first-floor bedroom. Two other rooms have 17th-century paintwork on the walls, including a Jacobean-style panelling design. Part of a newel stair survives in the centre of the north wing, which is thought to be a former stair-turret.^[12]

Surroundings

The north of the estate is Burderop Wood, which was designated a 'Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest' in 1971 for its wet ash-maple and acid pedunculate oak-hazel-ash woodland.^[20]

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