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| • | Moor Park is a place in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire.
It is named for the Palladian house around which it was developed. The original house was built in 1678–9 for James, Duke of Monmouth, and inherited by his duchess after he was beheaded. Before her death (1732), Benjamin Hoskins Styles, who had made a fortune in The South Sea Company before the notorious Bubble burst, purchased it. It was reconstructed for him ca 1720 by Giacomo Leoni, who refaced the house with Portland stone and added its grand portico and Tuscan colonnades (demolished), with a painted staircase by Sir James Thornhill. In 1752 it was bought by Admiral Lord Anson who commissioned Capability Brown to remake the formal gardens in sweeping "landscape style" with a small lake. Further owners succeeded at regular intervals until the enlarged estate was sold to the Grosvenor family in 1828. The Earl Grosvenor, son of the duke of Westminster, built the gateway at Batchworth Heath and planted the pleasure grounds with trees and ornamental shrubs. It is said that the commercial strawberry, a hybrid of the European strawberry and a Chilean species, was first cultivated in the kitchen gardens of Moor Park, as had been the "Moorpark" fuzzless apricot in an earlier day.
It is now one of the finest golf courses in Great Britain and venue for a number of international competitions.
The area is served by Moor Park tube station on the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground.
Towns in Hertfordshire
Source: [wikipedia: moor park, hertfordshire]
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