In the 18th century the family became wealthy from sugar plantations in the West Indies (see History of the British West Indies) and undertook work on the estate.
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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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# 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.