Henley Park, Surrey (also known as Ash Manor)
Acquired: 1509 (by inheritance)
Henley (also spelled Hensley) Park was a royal deer park dating back to the fourteenth century. Edward II built a residence there, and Edward III enlarged it. It was listed as decayed by 1459 but the English Gatehouse Gazeteer online notes that an early sixteenth century timber framed house, now brick clad, stands on a moated site there, with the moat surviving on three sides.
Records indicate that in 1547-8 the Crown paid for park maintenance, indicating its conservation as a hunting preserve, which appears to have remained in royal hands until the seventeenth century. Henry VIII may therefore have visited, though whether he stayed at the house must be doubtful.