Rope Hill

This house was enlarged by Admiral Brine from an old cottage which is still within it.' In the 1880s and 1890s the house was occupied by Edmund Gustave Bloomfield Meade-Waldo, an 'ardent naturalist... [whose] ample means enabled him to... give much personal time to all questions of protecting scenery, maintaining and watching sanctuaries, and defending public rights of way'.Rope Hill, Boldre, own and occ Capt Knapton, pp. 50-1. p. 50 Head of family assoc w. manors of Brokenhurst and Buckland. p. 51 bought by Capt Philip Bromfield in latter part of C18th, husband of Cecilia Knapton d. 1830 [Campion]