Quality Homecare in Chessington

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Chessington Hall, Chessington

Brief history of the area

Chessington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cisedune. Its name came from Anglo-Saxon 'belonging to man named Cissa'.

Burnt Stub, the mansion at Chessington World of Adventures was built in 1348. In the English Civil War it became a royalist fortress and was razed to the ground by Cromwell's Parliamentary forces, giving it its modern name. The site subsequently became an inn and was rebuilt from the 18th century by the Vere Barker family.

Reginald Goddard turned the 65-acre grounds into a zoo in 1931. It is now operated as a theme park.

Did you know?

At 207 Hook Road, Chessington, is a blue plaque commemorating the author Enid Blyton, who lived at the address between 1920 and 1924. She authored over 700 books, translated into 27 languages, with a total average sales of ten million books a year. While her books remained popular she was accused of snobbery, class prejudice, xenophobia, racism, gender stereotyping, and literary inadequacy. Despite suffering with pre-senile dementia she continued to write and had four books published the year she died.