Foxhills

 

I heared about Foxhills few times but I have never been there to see what I can meet there. It was my day after night shift and I was awoke so late after work. I needed to choose the place near my living place. Why not Foxhills. Afternoon apears so nice for walking and looking for sunset. I haven't met sunset It was covered by trees but the place looked so interesting.  Foxhills Club and Resort is Surrey's favourite playground but Foxhills' Manor Restaurant – located in the 19th century Victorian Manor House

Foxhills first took its name from the 18th Century politician Charles James Fox who came to live in the Surrey area in the 1780s after a troubled life involving heavy drinking and gambling. Forcibly, Charles James Fox resided in Surrey country estate with his wife Elizabeth Armistead. Some years after restoring his body and spirt with the help of his neighbour Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1st Baronet, Charles James Fox died in 1806.
Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1st Baronet did not long out-live Charles James Fox where he ultimately died in 1817. Sir Joseph bought the estate of Botleys in Chertsey in 1763, however upon his death, his Daughter and Son-In-Law, John Ivatt Briscoe bought the estate which we know now as Fox’s Hill.
In the 1870s the estate was passed to a relative of John Ivatt Briscoe, Edward Hutton who served as a veteran in the Anglo-Zulu and Boer wars. Lieutenant General Sir Edward Hutton, died in 1923 being buried in Lyne near Chertsey Surrey . Before General Hutton’s death he sold the estate to Borthwicks in the early 1920s who were successful merchants.
The estate and farm what we call today, the Manor, grew extensively. This continued until the Second World War when the family converted the farm, now the Bernard Hunt Golf Course, over to the Dig for Victory Campaign
A consistent gradual decline in the 1960s saw the estate being sold once again where it turned into a golf club in 1975.