TODAY, it is a newly-refurbished hotel fit for the community having been converted from a conference centre run by the council. But the history of Easthampstead Park, one of the jewels in Bracknell Forest’s crown, stretches back centuries. Before the mansion house was built, records identified the manor of Easthampstead in William the Conqueror's Domesday Survey of 1086. Down the centuries, Easthampstead passed with frequency as a gift or an exchange at “the whim of the Crown”, according to historian Penny Olsen. By the mid 14th century King Edward the Third had built a Royal Hunting Lodge within its boundaries.