Visit Guildford DE VERE HORSLEY ESTATE
Visit Guildford’s group of venues can offer quality event and meeting space to suit
any requirement and with Surrey being situated just 30-40 minutes by train from London, near to Heathrow and Gatwick Airports and served by the M25 for traffic from the Channel Tunnel – it’s the ideal place for an event catering for people coming from far and wide.
Guildford venues are delighted to welcome new member De Vere Horsley – a conference centre that includes the stunning historic Horsley Towers. The launch of the De Vere brand, part of the Principal Hotel Company, took place at the Grand Connaught rooms a couple of weeks back.
De Vere Horsley Estate is a well-established Conference and Events hotel operating just 6 miles outside of Guildford’s city centre. Set in acres of wonderful Surrey parkland the Estate combines quintessential heritage with contemporary style. Horsley Place is an exceptional collection of modern meeting, training and conference facilities whilst the iconic Horsley Towers is a lakeside 19th Century Mansion House with a very interesting story;
Horsley Towers was originally designed 46 OCTOBER 2017
by Charles Barry, architect of the Houses of Parliament and Highclere House of now Downton fame, then the ancestral home of the Lovelace family including Ada Byron daughter of the romantic poet Lord Byron. Ada Byron is famous in her own right given the accolade of the ‘First Lady in Computing’ for her input into Charles Babbage’s first mechanical computer. Ada features on Microsoft’s watermark, has a computer code named after her and a medal awarded in her honour every year to British contributions to computer sciences. Later the Towers was owned by Sir Tommy Sopwth designer of the Sopwith Camel and Hurricane airplanes so crucial in the war effort. The Towers was then used as a boarding school and training centre with the now Horsley Place built on the old farm and flint and brick stables still evident today.
As a business, banqueting and events destination the Lovelace mottos, found on the ceiling trusses in the Great Hall, still hold true ‘Premium Virtuis Honor – Honour is the reward of virtue / Labor ipse Voluptus – Labour is itself
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