Chillesford Lodge (OS grid TM3950) lies over a mile southeast from the village close to Sudbourne Park.

His third son Alastair Joseph Watson (1901–1955) inherited that part of his father's estates, which totalled some 20,000 acres in England.

Chillesford Lodge estate was the Sudbourne Hall estate's Victorian "model farm", the buildings of which were erected in 1875 by Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet[5] of Sudbourne Hall, the noted art collector and illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess of Hertford.

[citation needed]The irrigation system was powered by a 1917 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost engine, serial number L14 or L17, purchased by Watson from a scrapyard in 1936 for £25.

Spectators were encouraged and were admitted free of charge, with printed programmes with colour covers provided, a further innovation for a small polo club at the time.

[12] The club closed during World War II[13] and was ploughed-up[citation needed] for wartime food-production, but re-opened in 1948.