Landscape record 0794900000 - Stonor Park

A country house with C17 walled garden attached, surrounded by an C18 landscape park. The Stonor family have lived in the Stonor valley from at least the C12, being recusants following the Reformation (1540s), and, because of their refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy, were heavily fined and their lands confiscated. Their fortunes improved during the C18, during which time the house was gothicised and the landscape park seems to have been laid out. The Stonors continued in ownership during the C19 and C20, the eighth Thomas Stonor acquiring the barony of Camoys as the third Lord Camoys in 1839. The estate remains in private hands (1997) (B1).
Stonor Park was added to Historic England's Register of Historic Parks and Gardens in 1984. Mostly within Oxfordshire, with a small part extending into Buckinghamshire.


[Area centred SU 74118903] Stonor Park (Deer Park) [T.I.] (B2)

Stonor Park is noticed by Leland but it does not appear in Saxton's Survey [1574].

The park is nearly 3 miles in circumference. (B3)

Not shown as a park on a map of 1796 (B4-5)

13th century deer park which was landscaped and enlarged circa 1800. It comprises natural woodland with rides and vistas. 17th century formal and kitchen gardens are also present. (B6)

The landscape park is 18th century in date. The walled garden was laid out during the 17th century, the pleasure grounds during the 19th century. (B7)

NRHE Insert 1997, Update 2000, Update 2005 (B8)