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3 unusual facts about South Hill Park


South Hill Park

The Wilde Theatre was officially opened by The Princess Anne on 15 May 1984 which due to the local association with Oscar Wilde was named after him and the first performance being The Importance of Being Earnest.

After his death, the Honourable Henry Bouverie lived in the house until 1787 and was followed by Sir Stephen Lushington until 1807, when George Canning, the celebrated Statesman, acquired the property.

In the grounds of South Hill Park a plaque records the planting of a tree by William Ewart Gladstone in 1893.


The Knot Garden

In 1984 Tippett created a reduced orchestration for a revival with the London Sinfonietta at the Wilde Theatre.


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Baron Haversham

He was the only son of the Whig politician William Goodenough Hayter, best remembered for his two tenures as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in the 1850s, who was created a Baronet, of South Hill Park in the County of Berkshire, on 19 April 1858.

Rachel Hyde-Harvey

From November 2008 to January 2009, Rachel played Belle in Beauty and the Beast at the South Hill Park Hill Arts Centre in Bracknell.