page_title: Great Bookham
section_title: Polesden Lacey
hierarchical_section_title: Great Bookham / Polesden Lacey
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Polesden Lacey (National Trust property near Dorking, Surrey)
context_page_description: Great Bookham is a village in Surrey, England, one of six semi-rural spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of Bocham. The Bookhams are surrounded by common land, and Bookham railway station in Church Road, Great Bookham, serves both settlements.
  The villages are astride the A246, which is the non-motorway and direct route between the two towns. Once two distinct villages, the Bookhams have long been interconnected with residential roads that give the impression of one large village.
  On the southern edge of the village is Polesden Lacey, a country house surrounded by more than 1,000 acres of grounds. It is owned by the National Trust and open to the public.
context_section_description: A regency villa on the southern edge of the village, Polesden Lacey has been the site of a house since at least 1336.  The current house dates from the 17th century, and was bequeathed by its last owner, the Hon. Mrs Greville, a legendary Edwardian hostess, to the National Trust in 1942. When the Grevilles purchased the property in 1906, they extensively remodelled the house with the help of Mewes and Davis, architects of the Ritz Hotel, London. There are large walled and formal gardens, an orchard and croquet lawn, as well as extensive farmland.
  The property and its 1,400-acre (5.7 km²) estate are open to the public, and is one of the National Trust's most visited properties.The house is also the National Trust's Southern Region head office.
  The future King George VI and his bride spent part of their honeymoon at Polesden Lacey, as guests of Mrs Greville.
  The poet and playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a previous owner of the property from 1804.
caption: Polesden Lacey
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