. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE inclosed it with i ;M This was Briggens Park, situated in the south-western corner of the parish, on the banks of the River Stort, which Robert Chester had bought from the Feildes of Stanstead ; The hojse built by Chester occupied the site of two older messuages called Over Brcdons and Nether Bredons or Great Briggens and Little ; Robert Chester died in 1732," having left Briggens Park to his sister Jane Chester provided that she kept up the park, gardens and d
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE inclosed it with i ;M This was Briggens Park, situated in the south-western corner of the parish, on the banks of the River Stort, which Robert Chester had bought from the Feildes of Stanstead ; The hojse built by Chester occupied the site of two older messuages called Over Brcdons and Nether Bredons or Great Briggens and Little ; Robert Chester died in 1732," having left Briggens Park to his sister Jane Chester provided that she kept up the park, gardens and deer. Jane Chester died in 1736,'* and was succeeded by her brother Henry (or by his son Henry), who in 1740 sold the property to. North-east Thomas Blackmore of Covent * He was succeeded in 1763 by his nephew Thomas Blackmore, who left a son Thomas and several daughters, one of whom, Mary, in 1792 married Rev. Charles Phelips, fourth son of Edward Phelips of Montacute. The death of Thomas Blackmore in 1824 resulted in Briggens Park passing into the hands of their ion Charles Phelips. The latter died in ] 870, when the estate was inherited by his son Charles James Phelips. Charles Jamea Phelips died without issue in 1903, and Briggens Park fell to his nephew Gerald Edward Farquharson Phelips, whose trustees sold it with the manor in 1907 to the Hon. Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, the present owner, who resides ; The house built by Che;t_-r forms the centre of the present house, and some of the 2-in. brick foundations of the older houses have recently been Hunsdonbury is now the property of Mr. E. Thomas, who bought it from Mr. John Henry Buxton in 1911. The latter purchased it in 1S89 from .Mr. Salisbury Baxendale.'* It originally formed part of the estate of the Calvcrts, who resided there after 1840, and later passed to M r. Walker,10 who also lived ; About half a mile south of the church is Brickhouse Farm, a 17th-century house built of i-i
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