Short Description of Milford-on-Sea, A (book)
1900-1909?
LMGLM:1993.261
Summary: book, 25pp in paper cover, with illustrations by local water-colour artist, describing, and promoting as holiday destination, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, probably 1900sSummary: Colonel Cornwallis West Lived at Newlands Manor from 1886 until his death in 1917Identification note: In the 1880s William Cornwallis-West of Newlands Manor decided to try to develop Milford into a high-class seaside...
Description
Summary: book, 25pp in paper cover, with illustrations by local water-colour artist, describing, and promoting as holiday destination, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, probably 1900s
Summary: Colonel Cornwallis West Lived at Newlands Manor from 1886 until his death in 1917
Identification note: In the 1880s William Cornwallis-West of Newlands Manor decided to try to develop Milford into a high-class seaside resort in order to exploit the property he owned on the cliff top with its magnificent views. He wanted to emulate what his friend, the Duke of Westminster, had done at Eastbourne and thereby get himself out of financial difficulties. Plans were made for houses, a hotel, gardens, and a hydropathic establishment, and in preparation roads were laid out and named after the family (Whitby, West, De la Warr, Pless). He placed restrictions on the development to ensure its quality – each plot was ½ - 1 acre and each house should cost at least £1,200. However, the plan never attracted the finance it needed and his vision was never realised. The roads remain though, paying homage to the Cornwallis-West family.