Cowdray Park, West Sussex
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Cowdray Park is a country house at the centre of the 16,500 acre Cowdray Estate. It is close to the village of Easebourne in West Sussex, England. The estate belongs to Viscount Cowdray, whose family have owned it since 1908. It is probably best known for Cowdray Park Polo Club, which is one of the leading polo clubs in the United Kingdom. It also offers many other leisure activities, such as a golf course, clay pigeon shooting and corporate activity days, as well as the more traditional activities of agriculture, forestry and property lets.
The estate also features the Cowdray Ruins - the former home of the Montague family, built in 1542 and largely destroyed by fire in 1793. In 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of £2.7m towards the cost of stabilising the ruins and they were opened to the public on 31 March 2007.[1]
The house is not open to the public.
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- ^ Cowdray Ruins, accessed 25 July 2007
