Ditton Park, Datchet

In the civil parish of Datchet.
In the historic county of Buckinghamshire (Modern Authority of Windsor & Maidenhead, 1974 county of Berkshire).

Country house and chapel of 1812 on the site of a possible fortified house which was extant in 1331 and rebuilt in the early C17. From 1472 the Manors of Datchet and Ditton belonged to the Crown, and the future Queen Mary was frequently lodged at Ditton Park as a small child, conveyed across the Thames by Datchet ferry from her father Henry VIII's presence at Windsor Castle. Ditton Park became part of the dowry of Anne Boleyn, but there is no evidence that she actually lived there.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ00027791

PastScape number; 394655

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p211
Pevsner, Nikolaus and Elizabeth Williamson with Geoffrey K Brandwood, 1994, The buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (Harmondsworth) p279
Thurley, Simon, 1993, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (Yale University Press) p78, 80
Page, Wm (ed), 1925, VCH Buckinghamshire Vol3 p304
RCHME, 1912, An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Vol1 [south] p289
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p410

Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)

Calendar of Patent Rolls (1330-34) p226
Calendar of Patent Rolls (1330-34) p521

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Ditton Park, Datchet

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ00027791

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