page_title: Brookmans Park
section_title: Two Estates & Great Houses
hierarchical_section_title: Brookmans Park / History / Two Estates & Great Houses
context_page_description: Brookmans Park is a village in Hertfordshire, southeast England, known for its BBC transmitter station.
  Brookmans Park railway station, on the East Coast Main Line, is operated by Great Northern. It is also a waypoint used in air navigation by Heathrow Airport.
context_section_description: In the 1700s the area of Brookmans Park was recorded as having two manor houses:
  Gobions estate was transferred to John More in 1397: the house renamed More Hall. Sir John More became the owner. Edward VI gave this estate to Queen Elizabeth 1 in 1550 by and it was returned to the More family by Mary Tudor in 1553. Gubbins mansion stood north of Gobions Pond where the back gardens of The Grove meet the wood. More Hall later became Gubbins or Gobions, also Gybynnes. Its name has varied over the centuries and through many ownerships.It had reverted to Gubbens in the 17th century and Gubbins in the 18th. Originally the name seems to have come from "Sir Richard Gobion who was Lord thereof in the reign of King Stephen" in the twelfth century.
  The Gobions mansion was of such a fine quality with pleasure grounds designed by Charles Bridgeman, that it was visited by royalty. Now, virtually none of it remains, just a few scattered ruins. 
  The Brokemans known as "Manor of Mimmshall" owned by John Brokeman (died 1415). Where the name Brookmans Park originated.
  The Gaussen family arrived in 1786, when Peter Gaussen bought the Brookmans estate for his son Samuel.  In 1838 the Gaussens demolished the Gubbins manor house  (he owned both houses and was jealous that Gobbins was better than his other, Brookmans).  
  In 1891, while the family were away on a holiday cruise, Brookmans Manor burned down, caused by a "painter using a blow lamp for exterior redecoration". Robert George Gaussen then had the stable block, now the Brookmans Park Golf Club House, of the estate converted to his home.
caption: Gubbins
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