Great Culverden Park

The Park is the remnant grounds of the former Culverden House, designed by Decimus Burton for Jacob Jeddere Fisher in 1830 and built on the highest point in the wood and the first big house to be built there.

When Jacob Jeddere Fisher pulled down the old house and built himself another, in 1830, he named it Great Culverden.

Great Culverden House was once the residence of Rear Admiral Charles Davis Lucas, VC, who died there in 1914.

[2][3][4] The Park forms a 'green link' under the Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Green Infrastructure Plan,[5] 2011 that provides a wildlife corridor linking the park, Rusthall Common and other local wildlife sites.

Ephraim is required to provide a contiguous Protected Ecology Zone through the development to support this.