Hinwick
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c.1550: Hinwick Hall built around this date. Before 1556 the Hall passed to the Tyringham family and was purchased from them in 1683 by Thomaston of Odell Castle.
1690: General John Liversey bought Hinwick Hall.
1709-14: Hinwick House built between these dates for Richard Orlebar, the total cost being 3,848 4s 9d. The house was built for his marriage to Diana Astry and it was her inheritance that paid for the building work to take place. The Orlebars decided to built their house along the same lines as Buckingham House, London.
1779: Hinwick Bridge built by Richard Orlebar. An earlier bridge is shown on the site on Jeffery's 1765 map of Bedfordshire. It was first repaired by the Quarter Sessions in 1842 and was formally adopted by Bedfordshire County Council after 1888.
1834: Hinwick Hall purchased by Richard Orlebar.
1859: Victorian Wing added to Hinwick House.
1908: Peter Robinson, the Oxford draper buys Hinwick Hall.
1914-1918: During the First World War Hinwick House was a hospital run by the Red Cross for wounded soldiers.
1942: Hinwick Hall purchased by The Shaftesbury Society as a residential home for handicapped boys and later to become Hinwick Hall College of Further Education..
1992: Hinwick House sold but the new owners never moved into the property.
2004: Hinwick House up for sale.
Page last updated: 29th January 2014