Langley Park Estate

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The Langley Park Estate was an English country house estate on the south side of Beckenham, Kent.^[1]^[2]

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country. However, the term also encompasses houses that were, and often still are, the full-time residence for the landed gentry that ruled rural Britain until the Reform Act 1832. Frequently, the formal business of the counties was transacted in these country houses.

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Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west. The county also shares borders with Essex along the estuary of the River Thames, and with the French department of Pas-de-Calais through the Channel Tunnel. The county town is Maidstone.

Over the centuries the estate was owned by the Malmains, Style, Elwill and Burrell families.

The Langley Farm forming the west side of the estate was sold in the 1880s. By 1903 the remaining estate and mansion were vacant. It was bought by H & G Taylor Builders who began developing the land as the Park Langley Estate in 1910. They retained the mansion as the club house to their new golf club. The mansion was subsequently destroyed by fire.

Park Langley is a suburb of Beckenham, London which was first developed in the 1900s on the historic Langley Park Estate by H & G Taylor Builders.

The family names of the previous estate owners are used for roads laid out by H & G Taylor.

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References

↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 188 Maidstone & Royal Tunbridge Wells (Sevenoaks & Tonbridge) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319228814.
↑ "Langley Park Beckenham - History". www.langleyparkbeckenham.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.

Coordinates: 51°23′57″N0°01′06″W / 51.3993°N 0.0182°W / 51.3993; -0.0182

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[OS188-1] Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 188 Maidstone & Royal Tunbridge Wells (Sevenoaks & Tonbridge) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319228814.

[2] "Langley Park Beckenham - History". www.langleyparkbeckenham.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.