Historical Summary
To set the events at Ottershaw in context I have provided a brief list of other historical events.
| Date | Events in Ottershaw Park 1761 - 2003 | Background historical events |
| 1761 | Land Purchased by Thomas Sewell | 1756-63 Seven Years War |
| 1760's | Old Mansion built | 1775 American war of Independence |
| 1783 | Original Mill built | 1768-79 Cook explores Australia |
| 1784 | Inherited by Thomas Bailey Sewell | |
| 1789 | Map by Lindley & Crosley is first to show estate - a mansion, Bothy, Home Farm and 2 South lodges, possibly 2 Inner lodges. The western ponds and the Little and Great Blackmole ponds are shown. | 1789-95 French
revolution 1791 Mozart writes The Magic Flute |
| 1795/6 | Purchased by Edmund Boehm | 1795 First horse-drawn railway in England |
| 1797 | Dunford Mill built to replace earlier one | 1799 Rosetta stone discovered |
| c.1800 | "Enclosure" map (published 1819) shows Mansion (apparently without conservatories), Bothy comprising a cluster of indistinct buildings, Home Farm, 2 South lodges and 2 Inner lodges. | 1800 British
population is 9.25 million 1801 Union of Great Britain and Ireland |
| 1800 - 1819 | Boehm purchased heathland to the NE of the estate and built the 2 North lodges, mansion improved, gothic "chapel" erected to house kitchen, diary, bakehouse. Cottage in Bonsey's Lane by this time. Tanglewood and Ice House built by this time. | 1804
Trevethick's steam engine 1805 Battle of Trafalgar |
| 1819 | Purchased by Sir George Wood | 1820-30 George IV |
| 1824 | Inherited by George Wood Jnr | 1825 Stockton to Darlington Railway |
| 1830's | Estate leased to Lord Belfast and Richard Crawshay | 1820-30 William IV |
| 1841 | Purchased by Richard Crawshay | 1837-1901 Victoria |
| 1841 - 1859 | Improvements to estate; new bailiff's house (at Home Farm), farm buildings. A brewhouse was built in Bothy (where nos 18/19 are now). Berwin Park built in Bonsey's Lane by this time. Garden Court Cottage possibly built at this time. | 1840 First
postage stamp 1851 Crystal Palace opens 1853 Florence Nightingale's first training school 1854-56 Battle of Balaclava |
| 1859 | Purchased by Sir Thomas Colebrook | 1859 Darwin's Origin of Species published |
| 1864 | Christ Church consecrated, vicarage built | 1863 London Underground opens |
| 1865 | South Lodges demolished and replaced by Woking Lodge | |
| 1868 | Conservatories removed from mansion, E Wing built to house kitchen; Gothic building converted to Laundry | 1867 Votes for all male householders in towns |
| 1870 | Ottershaw junior school opened | 1869-70 Spanish Revolution |
| 1883 | Purchased by Lawrence Baker | 1881 First Boer war |
| 1880's | Terrace of 4 Dunford cottages built to replace earlier cottages | 1884 Votes for all male householders |
| 1890's | Dunford Mill demolished, new cottages built in Bonsey's Lane | |
| 1896 | Parish room built | 1899-1902 Second Boer war |
| 1907 | Tennis & Croquet lawns west of present day tennis courts. | |
| 1910 | Purchased by Sir Fredreich
Gustav Jonathan Eckstein |
1909 Bleriot
first to cross English Channel by plane
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| 1914-18 | Mansion used as Auxillary War Hospital for officers | 1914-18 First World War |
| 1918 Votes for all males over 21 | ||
| 1919/21 | Leased/Purchased by Miss Susan Dora Cecilia Schintz | 1919 Votes for
women over 30 |
| 1930 | Miss Schintz files for bankruptcy. Outlying farms sold. | 1928 Votes for
women over 21 1929 Wall Street Crash- Great Depression |
| 1931 | Outlying areas purchased by Ottershaw Park Investment Company | |
| 1932 | Inner estate purchased by Ottershaw College | 1933 Adolf Hitler appointed German Chancellor |
| 1934 | Other areas of the estate sold separately. | |
| 1935/6 | Garden Court, Woodwind, Blackmole and new vicarage built. | |
| 1936/7 | Houses on Woking Road built | 1937 Hindenberg airship disaster |
| 1930's | Theatre added to West wing of Mansion (now no.24 The Mansion), Science labs (now no. 20 Ottershaw Park) and Squash Court (no. 23 Ottershaw Park) built, Tennis courts constructed | |
| 1939 | Ottershaw College closes | |
| 1940 - 45 | Much of estate requisitioned by MOD and woodland used as military vehicle park. Road to South lodges widened. Mobil use Mansion as headquarters | 1939-45 Second World War |
| 1945 | Compulsory purchase by SCC | 1945 George
Orwell's Animal Farm.
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| 1948 | Ottershaw school established | 1947 Dead Sea Scrolls discovered |
| 1951 | West House (now part of Tulk House), Chestnuts, Romany, Windfall and Mayfield (now nos. 7-10) built | 1950 World population 2.3 billion |
| 1953 | Cricket pavillion built | |
| c 1960 | Wey Farm and 69 Chobham Road built | 1961 Uri Gargarin is first man in space |
| 1962 | Gothic "chapel" demolished; Gymnasium (now Amberleigh and Mandalay) built on site. Tulk House built. | |
| 1969/70 | Woodstock, Lynwood, Florenza and Windrush - now numbers 11-14 and the Headmasters House (now no. 26 - Pantiles) built | 1967 First
heart transplant by Dr Barnard 1969 First man on the Moon |
| 1970-72 | Sixth form blocks built (now Arlington, no.27 and Silverlawns, no.28) | |
| 1981 | Ottershaw Park converted to residential estate. Numbers 1 - 6 and 22 built | |
| 1983 | Old vicarage demolished; site occupied by housing (=Beech Hill) | 1984 Macintosh launch first computer with mouse |
| 1985 | Ottershaw C of E school converted to residences (=Colebrooke | |
| 2001 | Bramshill replaced | 2000 - Human DNA genome sequencing completed |
| 2006 | Garden Court replaced |
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