Witley Park

The title to the estate included the titular Lordship of the Manor and control of Hindhead Common and the Devil's Punch Bowl, amounting to a total of around 9,000 acres (36 km2; 14 sq mi).

[14] He changed the name to "Witley Park" and added several hundred acres of land to the estate, purchased from Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby.

[15] Pirrie died without an heir in July 1924[14] and the estate was then owned by Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet, MP for Clapham, from August 1924 to 1951.

[16][17] The estate was bought in early 1952 by Ronald Huggett,[18] who immediately sold around half of the land, retaining around 1,300 acres (530 ha).

[21] Bentall farmed much of the land and commissioned Patrick Gwynne to build the five-bedroom, Modern movement Witley Park House in the early 1960s.

Raymond Brown died in 1991[24] and, in 2002, his family sold the 450 acres of walled-off parkland, gate lodges and cottages, retaining Witley Park Farm to the south.

The decoration was lavish and upstairs rooms had moulded ceilings, oriental carpets, Chinese furniture and Japanese silk pictures.

[20] When Whitaker Wright bought Lea Park, there were already two ornamental ponds, formed by damming a small tributary of the River Wey.

He re-landscaped the grounds, to create three much larger lakes, adorned with statues and fountains, one of which, in the shape of a dolphin's head, is carved from Italian marble.

[28] The glass structures were constructed before the lake was filled and a reinforced with iron rings, of an identical design to those used on the Metropolitan line of the London Underground.

[29] Also still standing in the grounds of Lea Park is a boathouse, with double wooden gates opening directly out onto Thursley Lake.