Situated in a remote northern corner of the County of Buckinghamshire you might expect that little of consequence had ever happened here. How wrong you would be.

• Life and Death in the Bronze Age
  
• Occupation by the Romans.
  
• Home to a kinsman of King Harold.
  
• Tenanted by William the Conqueror’s treacherous half brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux.
  
• Given to Sir Francis Drake by Good Queen Bess.
  
• Home of Sir Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plotter.
  
• Home of Lord Carrington.
  
• Residence of Sir Walter Carlile.
  
• Owned by Lord Hesketh.
  
• A satellite of The Bletchley Park code-breakers.
  
• Owned by The Bank of Switzerland.
  
• Converted into a boys boarding college.
  
• And finally - Developed into a series of private dwellings.
  
  

We think you will agree - a place of some interest. Click on the links to the left to read more.

The original Gayhurst website went live in 2002 and it was subsequently updated in 2004 & 2005.

To coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot it was planned to create a major expansion of the site and we are now in the process of implementing that project.

There is a considerable amount of work to be done and so having decided on the overall format we have decided to go live with each section as soon as it is complete.

Target date for finishing the project – March 2006