A Brief History of Calthorpe ParkA Brief History of Calthorpe Park

Kit Mitchell

Some history of Calthorpe Park

ELVETHAM a parish in Hartley-Wintney district Area, 3,200 acres. Real property, £2,349. Population 475. Houses, 98. The property is all in one estate. Elvetham Hall is the seat of Lord Calthorpe.

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales John Marius Wilson 1870-72

Calthorpe Park area, about 1800

Oatsheaf crossroads

Tavistock infants school

Football Club

Hitches Lane

Calthorpe Park

Tavistock Road

Canal

Calthorpe family and estateSir Richard Gough (died 1728); a London merchant who travelled to the Mediterranean, India and China. In 1717 he purchased Edgbaston Hall, Birmingham. Start of the Calthorpe Estates.

Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, M.P. (1709 - 1774); son of Sir Richard. His second wife was Barbara (1716 - 1782), only daughter and heiress of Reynolds Calthorpe (1689 - post 1716) of Elvetham, Hampshire. Son (Henry) and two daughters.

Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe ( 1749 - 1798) married Frances (d. 1827) in 1783; eleven children.

Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe (1790-1868) succeeded his brothers George and Charles (who had no children). In 1823 married Lady Charlotte Sophia; ten children.

Rachel Gough-Calthorpe, daughter of Sir Augustus, 6th Baron Calthorpe, married

FitzRoy Hamilton Anstruther in 1898, creating the Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe

family. In 1946 gives Calthorpe Park to Fleet

The Conveyance and Covenant

THE Grantor in exercise of the powers in this behalf

conferred upon her by the Settlement and of every or any other

power her hereunto enabling hereby grants and

conveys unto the Council ALL THOSE

pieces of land situate in the Parish of

Fleet (formerly as to part thereof in the Parish of Elvetham and

as to the remainder thereof in the Parish of Crondall) in the County

of Southampton and containing together Thirty four acres One rood

and Nineteen perches or thereabouts more particularly

described in the Schedule hereto and

delineated on the plan annexed hereto and thereon

distinguished by green edging

Plan in the 1946 Covenant

Cricket ground

Football ground

Tennis ground

Fish Pond

FOR the benefit and protection of the Grantor her successors in title and her and their assigns owner or owners of The Settled Estate or

any part thereof and so as to bind (so far as possible) the said pieces of land the Council hereby covenant with the Grantor in manner following (that is to say)-------------------------------

(1) Forthwith to erect and for ever afterwards to maintain fences on all boundaries of the said lands the material height and design of such fences to be subject to the approval of the Estate Agent of the Grantor but post and rail fences of good quality. shall be considered suitable ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(7) That the said lands shall be used

only as a public park and recreation

ground for the District of Fleet and

Crookham for the quiet and orderly

pleasure and recreation of the public

and that nothing shall be done or permitted thereon

which may be or become a nuisance or annoyance

to the Grantor or her successors in title or her or

their assigns or her other lessees or tenants or the

neighbourhood----------------------------------------------

OS 1:1250 map date 1970s or 80s

Calthorpe Park 1974

Calthorpe Park 1974

In 1963, the Merivale end of Calthorpe Park was being used as a land fill rubbish dump (hence the ground level).

Rubbish dumping ended in 1964 and the dump was covered with soil.

Various attempts have been made to build on Calthorpe Park. First an ambulance station for St Johns, then a leisure centre.

Tavistock Road Spring 1964