Silwood Park

Additionally, Silwood Park is home to the NERC Centre for Population Biology (CPB),[1] the International Pesticide Application Research Consortium (IPARC).

In about 1788, Sir James Sibbald built a neo-classical Georgian mansion by architect Robert Mitchell (1770-1809)[5][6] on part of the present house and demolished the old "Eastmore"; he called it Selwood or Silwood Park.

[8][4] Mary Hargreaves (née Hick) received socialite Rose O'Neale Greenhow as a guest in April 1864[9][7] and was an associate of novelist Mrs Oliphant.

A low power nuclear research reactor (100 kW thermal), named CONSORT II, was licensed at the site on 20 December 1962, completed February 1963, and achieved first criticality in 1965.

The Silwood site was the centre for the LUBILOSA Programme, where an inter-disciplinary team could be set up, combining IIBCs biological control skills with (bio)pesticide application (IPARC) and host-pathogen ecology (CPB).

CABI continued to focus on biological pest, disease and weed management in Silwood Park until consolidation at Egham (to become the UK Centre) in 2008.

The celebrated Entomology Masters in Science (Msc) course was suspended in 2012, causing faculty to move their work to Harper Adams University.

Silwood Manor dates from before Silwood Park became part of Imperial College
Silwood Park , engraving from a drawing by John Preston Neale , 1818.
Silwood Park open land from the south east