Wormsley Park

Wormsley is a private estate, home to the Getty family, and set in 2,700-acre of rolling countryside in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England. The Estate, which was acquired by Sir Paul Getty in 1985, forms part of Hambleden valley, running from Stokenchurch to Turville. Wormsley is world-renowned for its Library , its Cricket Ground , its two-acre Walled Garden, its Shoot and the beautiful vistas and landscapes of the estate grounds. Today, Wormsley offers a wonderful secluded location for events, private dining, meetings, functions, product launches, corporate family-days, celebrations and weddings. The Estate is also a much sought after location for Television and Filming work and since 2011, continuing the Family’s long-standing support of the Arts, has also been home to Garsington Opera. It is now the private estate of Mark Getty and his family.

Originally owned by the Scrope family since the late 16th century, the estate belonged to Colonel Adrian Scrope the regicide. The house and estate was passed to his grandson John Scrope a baron of the Exchequer and as Scrope died without issue, his estate of Wormsley passed to the descendants of his sister Anne , who had married Henry Fane of Brympton. Their second son, Thomas Fane, also a Bristol merchant, succeeded his uncle as Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis, beginning the Fane family's long association with the seat. Fane also succeeded a distant cousin and became 8th Earl of Westmoreland in 1762.

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