Rossway
| Rossway | |
| Hertfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Rossway House | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP95970730 |
| Location: | 51°45’22"N, -0°36’39"W |
| History | |
| Built 1867 | |
| For: | Charles Stanton Hadden |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
Rossway is a country house to the south of Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, presiding over the Rossway Park Estate, which extends over a thousand acres of countryside out to the county's border with Buckinghamshire.
The house is a Grade II listed building.
History
The Rossway Park Estate dates from the 17th century and was then known as Rothway.[1] It was bought by Robert Sutton of Highgate in 1802.[2]
Charles Stanton Hadden, a coffee planter with plantations in Ceylon, acquired the estate in 1863, demolished the original mansion and built a new house which was completed in 1867.[3]
In 1903 the property passed to Major-General Charles Hadden, who became Master-General of the Ordnance,[2] and it remained in his family until 1998 when it was acquired by Khoo Kay Peng, chairman of MUI Group, which owns a majority stake in the retail chain Laura Ashley.[4]
References
- ↑ "Rossway Name Meaning & Rossway Family History at Ancestry.com". http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=rossway. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A History of the County of Hertford - [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol2/pp245–250 Volume 2 pp 245–250: Parishes: Northchurch or Berkhampstead St Mary (Victoria County History)]
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359593: Main House at Rossway
- ↑ "Laura Ashley chief's 'prisoner wife' in £500m divorce battle: Estranged spouse says husband rationed her food and wouldn't let her leave without permission". Daily Mail. 4 August 2013. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384592/Laura-Ashley-chiefs-prisoner-wife-500m-divorce-battle-Estranged-spouse-says-husband-rationed-food-wouldnt-let-leave-permission.html. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- Haste, Scott (1999). Berkhamsted: an illustrated history. Alpine Press Ltd. ISBN 978-0952863113.