Description: Hilston Park - The definitive history of this Victorian Palladian-style manor house is now available, with illustrations, maps and photographs, documenting the site from 1293, up to present times.
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The definitive history of this Victorian Palladian-style manor house is now available, with illustrations, maps and photographs, documenting the site from from the first mention of a dwelling on the site in 1293, up to present times.
From the time of the Catholic Needham family in the 1660s to the last private resident in the late 1940s, the estate has seen many changes and influenced much of the local history of the parishes of St. Maughans, Skenfrith and Llangattock-Vibon-Avel.
Read about the turmoil of Owain Glyndwr's great rebellion and the swashbuckling general who shaped the history of the building and helped found the first education system for the area. Included are the local newspaper reports on the fire that consumed the building in 1836 and the story of the secret connection with the Jacobite Rebellion.