Loddington Hall, the local manor house, was first recorded in 1475 and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries became the property of Oliver Cromwell, whose son sold it to Sir John Pretyman, 1st Baronet.
and the son of photography pioneer William Bambridge; his mother was the daughter of Major John Fraser Loddington Baddeley, an officer of the Royal Artillery and later of the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey.