Hartsfield Manor
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Hartsfield Manor
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 22 May 2012
Hartsfield Manor was built in the 1860s by Arthur Woodriff Jaffray, a member of the Jaffray family who owned a successful merchanting company in New York, Robert Jaffray & Co, in whose London office he worked. However, it appears that he did not see its completion, in that he died in a shooting accident in Betchworth in December 1864. However, work continued and his widow, Mary, moved in following her remarriage in 1871 to a Captain James Moir. Following Mary Moir's death in 1885 ownership passed to a Mrs Higford. It was later sold to the Lloyd family of neighbouring Broome Park, who remained at Hartsfield Manor until the Second World War. During the War it was requisitioned by the Royal Corps of Signals. Since then it has been a residential hotel, then a training centre, firstly for Midland Bank and then, from 1994, Securicor, and then, after being sold in 2000 and fully restored, a conference centre/hotel, its present status.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.237482
Longitude
-0.264238