Clandon Park

Our archaeological salvage work in the house has now drawn to a close and we’ve found a number of remarkable items that survived the fire. Some are damaged, some are miraculously preserved, each has a unique story to tell.

Discover more stories from our experts on site at Clandon. Learn more from our project team about each of their individual disciplines, the unique challenges they face in each of their specialist roles and their day-to-day experiences since the fire.

Follow our progress through all the milestone moments on the Clandon Park project in a single timeline article, beginning on the night of the fire all the way up to our most recent update.

Since our project began we’ve been using video to capture significant moments as work continues. Here we’ve gathered together all of our video features in one easy to navigate list.

A record of our major news articles since the fire in April 2015. Take a look back through these big announcements as they emerged.

In 1870, the 4th Earl inherited gardens left idle for 43 years. Determined to restore them, the 4th Earl documented the transformation in his diary.

Small changes to our grade II listed gardens continued throughout the 20th century to produce the surroundings that you see today.

The gardens at Clandon have been a canvas for two of the most influential garden designers in English history. Learn more about the landscape.

The Onslow family have lived at Clandon Park since 1641. Following their move to Surrey, the family's political fortunes began to grow. So did the house and the huge estate that they built around them.

Clandon suffered great neglect during the time of the 3rd Earl of Onslow. Then followed a restoration to its glorious past by the 4th Earl, William Hiller Onslow. All was well at Clandon until 1914, when war came to Britain.

The Onslow family are unique in having provided three speakers for the House of Commons over the centuries. Before the recent fire they were celebrated in the Speakers' Parlour. Miraculously much of this room survived the fire relatively intact.

Find out more about Hinemihi's roots as the hub of a thriving Maori community on New Zealand's North Island, and the tragic events that left her abandoned there.

Hinemihi is the only Maori meeting house in the UK. How did she find herself on the other side of the world, in the gardens of Clandon Park in a quiet Surrey village?

When Britain entered the First World War the Onslow family were keen to play their part in the war effort. An application was submitted to the War Office and Clandon was accepted as an Auxiliary Military Hospital.

During the First World War Clandon Park was used as a military hospital. Find out about the cost of war, both to the hospital itself and the surrounding village of West Clandon.

Norah Ellender and James Creech met and fell in love during the First World War at Clandon Park Hospital. She was a nurse and he was a patient. Discover more about this remarkable story and its relationship to Clandon's history.