The ruins of Cowdray's Tudor house
The story
Tudor ruins, living land.
Cowdray Ruins are the remains of one of England’s most important early Tudor houses, visited by King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I. In September 1793 a fire destroyed most of the house, and the Kitchen Tower is the part that survives.
The estate is owned by the Cowdray family, and Michael Cowdray, the 4th Viscount Cowdray, writes its welcome. It lies beneath the South Downs, within the South Downs National Park, at Midhurst in West Sussex.
“A holistic estate which cares about the land.”Cowdray Estate
Polo has been played at Cowdray since 1910, and the Gold Cup, the British Open polo championship, since 1956. The estate has its own golf course, a farm shop and café with a traditional butchery and deli, and farming, forestry and property lettings are part of the working estate.
