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<p>Hill Park, near Westerham
</p><p>Valence (or Valons) is an estate near Westerham in Kent, the land having been granted to Haimo de Valoines (or de Valoniis) in 1147 or 1148.    Various houses were constructed on the site from the end of the 15th century onwards.  In 1771 it was bought by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wills_Hill,_1st_Marquess_of_Downshire" class="extiw" title="w:Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire">Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough</a> (later Marquess of Downshire), who renamed the estate from Valence to Hill Park, had the house substantially rebuilt, and employed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Brown" class="extiw" title="w:Capability Brown">Capability Brown</a> to reconstruct the landscape around it.  After the estate had passed through various hands (and reverted back to its earlier name of Valence), it was bought by Norman Watney, a director of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watney_Combe_%26_Reid" class="extiw" title="w:Watney Combe &amp; Reid">Watney's Brewery</a> in the 1880s, who replaced the mansion with a new house slightly to the south-west.  This has been the site of a school since 1951.
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_Preston_Neale" class="extiw" title="w:en:John Preston Neale"><span title="English architectural and landscape draughtsman">John Preston Neale</span></a>
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