It flourished as a successful agricultural industrial enterprise (because the workforce, being forcibly imported African slaves, were unpaid), the first large-scale sugar plantation to operate in Antigua, starting with Codrington family's ownership in 1674, which lasted till 1944.
# Sir Gerald William Henry Codrington, 1st Bt. (1876), of Dodington Park, * 1850, + 1929, Md. 1887, his first half-cousin maternally Lady Edith Henrietta Sybil Denison, + 1945, d.
Sir Edward Codrington, son of Edward Codrington, younger brother of Christopher Bethell-Codrington, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and a hero of the Battle of Trafalgar.
The Codrington family acquired the estate in the late 16th century, when there was a large gabled Elizabethan house and adjoining church.
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