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Swallowfield Park is a Grade II* listed [1] stately home and estate in the English county of Berkshire. The house is near the village of Swallowfield, some 4 miles south of the town of Reading.
Swallowfield Park lies 8km south of the centre of Reading, adjacent to the east edge of the village of Swallowfield. The 135ha site is bounded to the south-west by Church Road, to the north largely by the River Loddon and connecting drains, and on the other sides by agricultural land.
The path enters the narrow neck of the pleasure grounds separating the west park from the east park, leading first north-west, past the former Decoy Pond, then turning north-east 300m north of the house, flanked by mature trees including yews and limes.
Swallowfield Park. The present house at Swallowfield Park, was erected in 1689 by Henry Hyde, the 2nd Earl of Clarendon, for his wife, the Swallowfield heiress, Flower Backhouse. She was the daughter of William Backhouse, the famous alchemist and inventor, whose family had owned the estate since the late 16th century.
Oct 7, 2018 · Built in 1689, and designed by architect William Talman, a student of Sir Christopher Wren, Swallowfield Park is the classic example of an English stately home. We had a lovely time being shown around.
Swallowfield Park was built in 1689-91 by Henry Hyde, the second earl of Clarendon (1638-1709) to replace the Tudor mansion of the alchemist and antiquary William Backhouse (1593-1662). Clarendon had taken as his second wife William Backhouse’s daughter, the heiress Flower Backhouse (1641-1700).
Swallowfield Park is a beautiful old manor house built for the 2nd Earl of Clarendon in about 1690, though much altered in 1820. The previous house had seen the parliamentary army camp in the park on 23rd October 1644, just four days before the 2nd Battle of Newbury.
