Welcombe Hotel

The estate had been acquired by John Lloyd of Snitterfield by 1777[a] and it later passed to his oldest son, George, who lived there until dying at the age of 63 in 1831.

In about 1866 he commissioned Thomas Newby to build a new mansion house in a Neo-Jacobean style to designs by architect Henry Clutton.

[6] Their third son, eminent Cambridge historian, George Macaulay Trevelyan, was born at Welcombe House in 1876 and later described it: It was one of those enormous country mansions with which the wealthy Victorian bourgeoisie loved to burden their newly purchased estates.

[7]George Otto Trevelyan died in 1928, aged 90, and the house was bought by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

[9] Bought and operated from the 1990s by Menzies Hotels Group, it was converted it into a spa and golf club occupying an estate of 157 acres (0.64 km2).