Gadebridge House was a country house at

Gadebridge Gadebridge is a district of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshi ...

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Greater London to the ...

History

The house was built for Sir Astley Paston Cooper, a surgeon, who moved there in 1811. In around 1840 Cooper commissioned an iron bridge as part of the approach to the site. The house was inherited by Lionel Hervey-Bathurst in 1905, following the death of the 3rd Baronet. The house passed down the Paston-Cooper family until it became Gadebridge Park School in 1914. Although the site accommodated a temporary army camp during

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, the house remained a school until 1963 when the school was forced out of its premises by the

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as part of its development of the

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. The house was demolished and

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built a Marketing Education Centre on the site: the centre was itself demolished in 1995 and the site is now used for housing.

References

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