Derry Downs
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Derry Downs
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 18 Mar 2009
The houses behind are in Burrfield Drive, and beyond is Kevington Hall, a Palladian villa completed in 1769 and commissioned by the owner of the estate, Herman Behrens, a City merchant from Amsterdam. It continued to be owned by the Behrens family until the Second World War, when it was requisitioned by the government to house Canadian troops. After the war it was used as a primary school until the early 1980s, when it became privately owned, with the new owners undertaking a full restoration. It is grade II* listed - for listing particulars see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359374. For closer view see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.386205
Longitude
0.120292