Keydell HouseHampshire Register of Historic Parks and Gardens: Revised Deposit HBDWLP (Environment Department, Hampshire County Council, The Castle, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 8UE) was situated in of land near Lovedean Corner,Williams' Guide and Timetable to some of the Beauty Spots on the Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway, July 1913 in the village of Horndean, part of the ecclesiastical parish of CatheringtonVictoria County History A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 Page, W(Ed) 1908 pp 94-101 Hampshire from Georgian times until its demolition to make way for houses in 1968.
History The earliest deed still in existence (for the field "Nine Acres") is dated 1660.Havant Museum, Local History Collection, Horndean Collection, Vol 4 (Keydell): autobiographical notebook of Margaret Strange, Keydell resident 1928-53) The House itself was a three-storey, rectangular mansion with shuttered windows and formal gardens.Horndean 2000 Singleton, B. (1999, Horndean, Horndean Parish Council These eventually became Keydell Nurseries, although the business which still trades under that name moved to a bigger site in 1987.Current user of Keydell name The House had two notable owners: the Victorian actor Edmund Kean;Hampshire County Council's page on Horndean and, most famously, Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe, a full general of the British Army.
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