Bentley Priory

Bentley Priory is an 18th to 19th century stately domestic and deer park in Stanmore at the northern fringe of the Greater London place inside the London Borough of Harrow. It was at the beginning a medieval priory or mobile of Augustinian Canons in Harrow Weald, then in Middlesex. There are no stays of the unique priory, however it probable stood close to Priory House, off Clamp Hill. In 1775, Sir John Soane designed a massive mansion house north of the unique priory, known as Bentley Priory, for the wealthy businessman James Duberley.

This become introduced to all through the 18th ?and 19th centuries with the aid of diverse owners. It became appreciably prolonged in 1788, again by Sir John Soane, for John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn. The priory was the final home of the Dowager Queen Adelaide, queen consort of William IV, before her dying there in 1849. It subsequently served as a motel and women' college before being received by means of the Royal Air Force in 1926. In the Second World War, Bentley Priory was the headquarters of RAF Fighter Command, and it remained in RAF fingers in diverse roles till 2008. You can visit this place with your loved ones.