[5] In the 16th century, it was owned by John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, who made the first English translation of Froissart's Chronicles, and later by the Earl of Lincoln.

[6] Elizabeth I stayed at West Horsley in August 1559 and watched Robert Dudley, Master of the Horse, and other courtiers "running at the ring" from a window of the old house.

[14] To raise money to restore the somewhat dilapidated 50-room house, Gascoigne arranged for the Duchess's possessions—some found under cobwebs in the closed-up sections of the house—to be auctioned by Sotheby's in London and Geneva.

The grounds are regularly used for events, concerts, art workshops and filming, and the main house and converted Place Farm Barn are available for occasional hire.

[22] Grange Park Opera took up residence in a purpose-built 700-seat theatre in the grounds, with its inaugural production of Puccini's Tosca, led by the Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja, on 8 June 2017.

[25] The planning application for the Theatre in the Woods met with some opposition due to its being in the Metropolitan Green Belt, but with the support of conductor Stephen Barlow and others, the project was approved by the Guildford Borough Council in May 2016.