Ditton Park

[2] Its turrets and pale stucco crenelations bear a resemblance to earlier Strawberry Hill House, a prototype of the Gothic Revival architecture.

Its warm, peach colour and tall symmetry reflects a movement towards Romantic architecture common in many of the high aristocracy's folly castles erected in the early 19th century.

[2] Nearby, on the Great West Road, a public house, the Montague Arms stands which is owned and operated as a Harvester restaurant, dating back to the early 19th century.

[5] In 1917 the remainder of the property, its farming tenants having long taken control through copyhold of their own lands, was taken over for the Admiralty Compass Observatory, which used the house and its immediate grounds.

[8] The manor was a detached part of Stoke Poges parish,[9] which was in the southern extreme of the English county of Buckinghamshire, before boundary reorganisations: in 1934 it was transferred to the parish of Datchet, in 1974 Datchet became part of the borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, and in 1998 the borough gained unitary authority status in that ceremonial county.