Henham Park

Henham Hall in 1829, built in 1790 by John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke to the design of James Wyatt; demolished 1953
Latitude Festival at Henham Park in 2007, when over 20,000 people attended

Henham Park is an historic 4,200 acres (1,700 ha)[1] estate in the parish of Wangford with Henham, situated north of the village of Blythburgh in the English county of Suffolk. The park is bordered to the east by the A12 road and to the west by the A145, the two roads meeting to the south of the estate.. It was historically the seat of the Earl of Stradbroke. In 1953 the 4th Earl demolished the Georgian manor house, known as Henham Hall.

The estate's current owner is Keith Rous, 6th Earl of Stradbroke (b. 1937), formerly of Mount Fyan's Station, Dundonnell, Victoria, Australia,[2] a 5,900 hectare (14,580 acre) ranch which he purchased in 1989 and sold in 2016 for $ Aus 34 million[3] (£19 million). In 2006 a major £60 million redevelopment plan was announced by Hektor Rous, the estate manager and a younger son of the 6th Earl,[2] including the building of a large hotel.[4] The park is the venue for the Latitude Festival of arts and music and plays host to other events throughout the year.

  1. ^ East Anglian Daily Times, 8 November 2006
  2. ^ a b Kidd, Charles, Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.P1174
  3. ^ "Riverina farmers buy historic Western District property". www.weeklytimesnow.com.au. 10 December 2018.
  4. ^ East Anglian Daily Times, 08 November 2006