Chewton Glen wedding map print

A Chewton Glen House is on record by 1732. From 1837 until 1855 it belonged to George Marryat, and his brother, the novelist Captain Frederick Marryat, stayed here in the 1840s while he wrote The Children of the New Forest. The forest he wrote about begins just beyond the hotel's own grounds.

The Duval family bought the house in 1947 with its farm, stables and 120 hectares, restored the old buildings and opened a hotel in 1962. Four years later the brothers Martin and Trevor Skan took it on and ran it for forty years. Since 2007 it has belonged to Ian Livingstone's London and Regional, and treehouse suites now sit out among the trees.

On the artwork the old Chewton stream, known now as Walkford Brook, runs down its valley just west of the grounds and on towards the coast, which lies a little beyond the bottom edge. Streets of houses fill the lower part of the map, with Walkford just past the western edge and Highcliffe further on. It makes a good record of the place your guests stayed up late, a short walk from the waves.