SITUATION
the original Elizabethan House was demolished
Moor Place is close to the much sought after village
and the existing Georgian house, designed by
of Much Hadham. The market town of Bishop’s
Robert Mitchell, was built along side, eventually
Stortford is within 6 miles providing a wide range of
being finished in 1779.
shops and services.
Moor Place was sold in 1854 to Money Wigram.
Moor Place is in a rural setting yet only 40 miles
On his death, the estate was left to his son who
from Central London via the A10, M25 and A1.
five years later sold it to Mr F. H. Norman, great
Trains from Bishop Stortford take about 45 minutes
grandfather of the present owner. In 1886,
to London Liverpool Street or about 30 minutes to
F. H. Norman added what is now the basement
Tottenham Hale tube station.
flats on to the north of the house (designed by
Norman Shaw). The south wing, known as the
There is a sought after primary school in Much
nursery wing and designed by Sir Ernest Newton,
Hadham and a wide selection of fee-paying and
was added by Mr Norman in 1906, with lead
state secondary schools within 15 miles of Moor
work on a hopper head downspout on the wing
Place. In addition there are a number of well
bearing his monogram and date.
regarded schools in the Cambridge area.
In 1916, F. H. Norman died. Moor Place passed to
Racing is at Newmarket (42 miles) and Great Leighs
his elder son Montagu Norman, Governor of The
(25 miles) and hunting with The Puckeridge. There
Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. In 1920,
are a number of golf courses locally including
Montagu passed Moor Place to his brother Ronald,
Hanbury Manor (8 miles) and East Herts (7 miles).
chairman of BBC and London County Council.
HISTORY
MOOR PLACE ESTATE
There has been a dwelling where Moor Place now
Moor Place is an exceptional residential and
stands since before the Norman Conquest when it
agricultural estate extending to about 781 acres to
was owned by the Bishops of London. By the 15th
the west of the picturesque village of Much
Century the land was held by a family called More
Hadham. An article about Moor Place in Country
who gave their name to the house, then known as
Life on 26th January 1956 begins; ‘Much of
Mores Place. The estate then passed to the Dalton
Hertfordshire has been spoilt by its nearness to
family who it is thought built the Elizabethan house
London, but, thanks to the merciful shortcomings
which preceded the current Moor Place.
of the railway service, there are still parts of it that
The estate passed through a number of families retain a rural atmosphere unusual in the Home
during the 17th and 18th centuries until 1750 when Counties. One of those localities is Much
it was bought by James Gordon whose family Hadham, which lies in the vale of the River Ash
owned Moor Place for over a century, four mid-way between Ware and Bishop’s Stortford,
generations of them living there, during which time only a few miles from the Essex border.’
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