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unusual facts about Worcester Park



Beverley Brook

Beverley Brook rises at Cuddington Recreation Park in Worcester Park then flows north in a culvert under the A2043 road, emerging in Worcester Park open space next to Worcester Park Station.

Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester

In 1606 he was appointed Keeper of the Great Park, a park created for hunting by Henry VIII around Nonsuch Palace, of which Worcester Park was a part.


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Stoneleigh, Surrey

From 1847 until c.1939 many commuter homes to London and Kingston were being built in Stoneleigh Park, on market gardens and small farms, occupying what was the northern part of the parish of Ewell and part of Cuddington (which contributed most of adjoining Worcester Park), economically accompanied by in parts of the Ewell parish by "extensive brick, tile, and pottery works, called the Nonsuch Works, and two flour mills worked by water and steam".

Worcester House

Worcester Park House, a now ruined building built in 1607 for or by the 4th Earl of Worcester in Worcester Park in Surrey in the United Kingdom