Worcester Park House

Samuel Pepys visited Sir Robert Long at Worcester Park House, in November 1665, while the Exchequer was using Nonsuch during the plague.

It has been claimed that the first version of the painting The Light of the World (1851–3) by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) was painted at night in a makeshift hut at the house, the other claimant being the garden of the Oxford University Press[4] Worcester Park House burned down in a great fire in 1948.

To the northeast of the site is a small, often dry, stream[6] at the field boundary, running SE->NW, with some old and modern culverting and which drains into the Hogsmill.

[1] However the map of 1871[9] shows a building labelled "Worcester Park House" to be alongside the lake, to the west of it, on land that was, in the 1950s, overgrown with trees.

The remainder of the site is heavily wooded and has dense undergrowth, with some contemporary fly tipping of refuse.