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Manor of Chilworth • Chilworth House • Chilworth village

Chilworth House, also known as Chilworth Lodge and Chilworth Manor, was a mansion house on the Chilworth Estate and a principal seat of the Willis Fleming family in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1872, the Chilworth household cost £4,000 pa to run, including keeping the game.

John Willis Fleming and family moved out of Chilworth House to Stoneham Park House in 1913; they returned to live at Chilworth in Feb 1924, and stayed there until 1944. Chilworth Manor was sold in 1946^[1].

Selected views

Chilworth Manor, c.1910: entrance front.	Chilworth Manor, c.1910: garden front.
Chilworth Manor, c.1910: garden front.	Chilworth Manor, c.1910: the beehive lodges.

Tenants of Chilworth House

• Hon. Richard George Quinn (-1843)
• Williamson (-c1853)
• George Atherley (1853)
• Richard Pink for John Brown Willis Fleming (1863-)
• John Smith Moreton (1913-1925)

Related articles

• Estimate of costs of running Chilworth House and farm, 1872
• Letter of John Willis Fleming to George Atherley, 11 Feb 1853
• Description of Chilworth Manor, 1870
• Letter fragment from a servant boy at Chilworth
• Detail of Schedule between John Brown Willis Fleming and Richard Pink

Images

c.1914	c.1914		c.1935
		The beehive lodges, c.1936
	'Paul' at Chilworth, 1912

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References

1. ↑ Copy conveyance of freehold hereditaments known as Chilworth Manor, 1946  (WFMS:1843 )