Great Harrowden is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, with a population (including Hardwick) at the 2011 census of 161.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century it housed a small girls’ boarding school; the Hawaiian princess, Victoria Kaiulani was educated there between 1889 and 1892.
In 1975 the hall was acquired by Wellingborough Golf Club to be its new clubhouse after it had been rescued from demolition by A. James Macdonald-Buchanan, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1972.
In addition to the golf course, the park contains some unaltered early formal gardens, surrounded by brick walls and fine iron gates with several statues by the Dutch sculptor John van Nost.
The grounds also contain a chapel built by the 7th Baron Vaux in 1905 – being a copy of the school at Higham Ferrers and three groups of lead statuary.