Newsells Park

Last updated April 27, 2019

Newsells Park is a country house and estate at Barkway in Hertfordshire.

Barkway village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England

Barkway is a long-established village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England, about five miles south-east of Royston, 35 miles from London and 15 miles from the centre of Cambridge. The Prime Meridian passes a mile or so to the west of Barkway.

Hertfordshire is one of the home counties in England. It is bordered by Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For government statistical purposes, it is placed in the East of England region.

History

The estate and the original manor house, built in the late 17th century,^[1] was acquired by Admiral Sir John Jennings in 1721 and was his home until he died in 1743.^[2] His son, George Jennings, commissioned Richard Woods to lay out the park in 1763.^[3] The main house went on to become the family home of Field Marshal Lord Strathnairn in the early 1880s.^[4] Strathnairn was keen on horses and had an obelisk erected in memory of his favourite charger which he had ridden during the Indian Mutiny.^[5]

Sir John Jennings was a Royal Navy officer. He commanded HMS Kent at Cadiz and Vigo in 1702 during the War of the Spanish Succession. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station, then Senior Naval Lord and finally Governor of Greenwich Hospital. He also served as a Member of Parliament.

Field Marshal Hugh Henry Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn, was a senior British Army officer. He served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army who were seeking to secure the expulsion of the forces of Mehemet Ali from Syria during the Egyptian–Ottoman War. He then fought with the French Army at the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Inkerman and at the Battle of Mamelon during the Crimean War. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 Rose was given command of the Central Indian Field Force and defeated the armies at Jhansi in April 1858, at Lahore in May 1858 and at Gwalior in June 1858. He went on to be Commander of the Bombay Army, Commander-in-Chief, India and then Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.

An obelisk is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. These were originally called tekhenu by their builders, the Ancient Egyptians. The Greeks who saw them used the Greek term 'obeliskos' to describe them, and this word passed into Latin and ultimately English. Ancient obelisks are monolithic; that is, they consist of a single stone. Most modern obelisks are made of several stones; some, like the Washington Monument, are buildings.

Sir Humphrey de Trafford, a prominent racehorse owner, acquired the house in 1926 and lived there with his family until the house burnt down during the Second World War.^[1] De Trafford had a new house built and continued to live on the estate, breeding famous racehorses including Alcide, who won the 1958 St. Leger Stakes and the 1959 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and Parthia, who won the 1959 Epsom Derby, until his death in 1971.^[5] The estate continues to operate as an active horse stud and, since 2000, has been owned by Jacobs Holding AG.^[6]

Sir Humphrey Edmund de Trafford, 4th Baronet, MC, DL was a prominent English racehorse owner, and the grandfather of Brigadier Andrew Henry Parker Bowles. He was the son of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 3rd Baronet, and Violet Alice Maud Franklin.

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.

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References

1 2 "Newsells, Barkway" . Retrieved 1 December 2013.
↑ "Jennings, Sir John (1664-1743), of Byfleet, Surrey". History of Parliament. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
↑ "Hertfordshire HER & St Albans UAD". Heritage Gateway. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
↑ "Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Newsell Park". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
1 2 "Newsells Park Stud" . Retrieved 1 December 2013.
↑ "About Us". Newsells Park Stud. Retrieved 1 December 2013.

Coordinates: 52°01′36″N0°00′50″E / 52.0268°N 0.0140°E / 52.0268; 0.0140

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[gene-1] 1 2 "Newsells, Barkway" . Retrieved 1 December 2013.

[2] "Jennings, Sir John (1664-1743), of Byfleet, Surrey". History of Parliament. Retrieved 5 August 2017.

[3] "Hertfordshire HER & St Albans UAD". Heritage Gateway. Retrieved 5 August 2017.

[4] "Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Newsell Park". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 1 December 2013.

[stud-5] 1 2 "Newsells Park Stud" . Retrieved 1 December 2013.

[6] "About Us". Newsells Park Stud. Retrieved 1 December 2013.