Belhus, Aveley / Magnificent Thorndon / Hylands, Widford
Belhus, Aveley
A sixteenth century house, remodelled in the eighteenth century The park was established in 1618.
Lancelot Brown worked on the park in 1753. Note how the park goes right up to the house. The
house was demolished in 1957 and the M25 now goes through what was the eastern edge of the
park. Some of the land, referred to now as Belhus Chase, has been heavily planted by the Woodland
Trust (since 1998). It was returning from a ball at Belhus in 1811 that Humphry Repton sustained
his debilitating injury in a carriage accident. (Engraving c. 1832, Map 1777).
BELHUS PARK AND HOUSE, NEAR AVELEY c.1777
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