Description

Summary: print, engraving of Brockenhurst House showing house in rural landscape with people and deer, Brockenhurst Park, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, the seat of Edward Morant Esq, Member for Lymington. 1777 by M A Rooker

Identification note: The Morant family could not pay the death duties on the death of Edward Morant in 1910 and had to sell off its Ringwood estates and properties including 2,285 acres and 150 cottages along with pubs and shops in the centre of Ringwood. The sale raised £80,000. Despite the sale and the ownership of 2,000 acres of land, the family was still struggling to make ends meet and in 1936 the Victorian extension was demolished, leaving only 14 bedrooms. Despite further sales of land, including the Brokenhurst golf course, and property such as the Red Lion at Boldre and the three pubs in Brockenhurst, the family sold the estate in 1959 and the house was demolished by the new owners.