HISTORY: The stories behind Redbridge's Open House hotspots
The Temple, Wanstead Park, Aldersbrook (Sunday, September 18) In Tudor times there was a small manor house called Wanstead Hall, which was later acquired by King Henry VII. But the Wanstead House building, of which only the Temple and Grotto still remain, was built in 1760. After being passed around three families called the Childs, the Tylneys and the Longs, Catherine Tylney Long inherited the Palladian mansion in the early 1800s. Catherine became England’s richest heiress, before sh...
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