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<p><b>Titsey</b> is one of the largest surviving historic estates in Surrey.
It dates back to the mid-sixteenth century, though the first impression
now is of a comfortable early-nineteenth century house in a picturesque
park, under the North Downs which hereabouts rise to over 800feet. It
is difficult to believe that this well-preserved stretch of country is
barely twenty miles from the centre of London; only the M25 motorway intrudes
into a landscape which otherwise has hardly changed in the last hundred
years. The estate was originally bought in 1534 by Sir John Gresham, of
the famous London merchant dynasty, and descended in the early-nineteenth
century through the female line to the Leveson Gowers, a cadet branch
of the family of the Dukes of Sutherland. The Leveson Gower family lived
at Titsey till the death of Thomas Leveson Gower in 1992. </p>
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The Titsey Estate </td>
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