Henbury, Dorset

Henbury
Henbury
	Henbury Cottages on the A31
	Henbury Location within Dorset
OS grid reference	SY960985
Civil parish	Sturminster Marshall;
District	East Dorset;
Shire county	Dorset;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WIMBORNE
Postcode district	BH21
Dialling code	01258
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North Dorset;

Henbury is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, England. It lies on the A31 road.

Henbury House is a classical Georgian house built in 1770.[1] In the 19th century the estate was held by the Parke family. In the 1870s two members of the family emigrated to Australia and founded Henbury Station, a cattle station some 140 km south of Alice Springs, near where the Henbury Crater was discovered in 1899.

Henbury House (renamed Henbury Hall) was the subject of a failed holiday time-share scheme in the 1980s which was designed to cover the cost of its refurbishment. In 1982 the then owners Charles and Susan Maitland offered bonds for sale at £500 each, guaranteeing investors a week's family holiday a year in the house for five years.[2] This was followed by a second Bond issue in 1983 at £1500. However, the venture failed during 1984 and in 1985 the property was sold to Roy and Guy Baylis. The Maitlands filed for bankruptcy which was completed in 1988 with a dividend of 24 pence in the pound for creditors.[3] A private housing development called Henbury House Gardens was then built on the land surrounding the house.[4]

References

"East Dorset County Council: Areas of Great Landscape Vale (June 1997)".
"HENBURY HALL, DORSET". Archived from the original on 4 February 2019.
London Gazette, 7 January 1988, p 181
"HENBURY HOUSE GARDENS RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.

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[1] "East Dorset County Council: Areas of Great Landscape Vale (June 1997)".

[2] "HENBURY HALL, DORSET". Archived from the original on 4 February 2019.

[3] London Gazette, 7 January 1988, p 181

[4] "HENBURY HOUSE GARDENS RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.