They described the estate which they called "Mr Ginger’s Villa" in the following terms: The grounds are enriched with a canal, waterfall, streams in every direction and rural scenes of diversified and elegant simplicity accompanied by intellectual discernment and manly taste.

[3]Shortly after this, Richard Ginger, who had formerly lived in Queenhithe in London, was declared bankrupt and was forced to sell all of his property.

Double coach house and stabling for six horses, three kitchen gardens walled and planted with prime fruit trees.

A handsome sheet of water, fine trout streams with ornamental bridges and waterfalls, extensive pleasure grounds, elegant sloping lawns, plantations and shrubberies beautifully disposed with a quantity of rich meadow land adjoining, containing together upwards of thirty acres.

[4]William Hilton, a merchant who traded in England and Ireland, bought the property and lived there for about ten years.

The couple lived in Watford for some years, and then in about 1792 they moved to Hemel Hempstead, where they rented several houses before they tenanted The Bury in about 1808 and later bought it.

Mrs Anderson was the tenant in 1895; Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Dawes Jones, his wife Emily and children, in 1899.

[15] In 1914 John joined the armed forces as a major and fought in World War I, serving in Egypt and France.

[25] In 2016, Dacorum Council vacated the building and relocated its registry office to Hemel town centre.

[26] Dacorum Heritage Trust, a local history advocacy group, has proposed that the building should be converted into a museum and art gallery, to display a collection of archaeological and historical artefacts from the surrounding area.