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Tylney House, Wansted

Wansted was a village six miles from London on the edges of Epping Forest; several lovely villas graced the village and its surrounds. In Saxon times Wansted manor belonged to Westminster Abbey, and throughout succeeding centuries it passed through many hands both clerical and secular until the eighteenth century when it became the property of the Child family, the son of whom became the Earl of Tylney. In the early nineteenth century the prince of Conde and his family from the royal House of Bourbon, enjoyed themselves here in peace and retirement having escaped the fury of the French Revolution.

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