Trent Park is an English country house, together with its former extensive grounds, in north London.
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11 Facts About Trent Park
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Trent Park site was purchased by a developer who received the necessary permits in October 2017 to build 262 residential units; the site will include a museum on the two lower floors of the mansion.
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Trent Park dates back to the fourteenth century when it was a part of Enfield Chase, one of Henry IV's hunting grounds.
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Trent Park possessed a landscape designed by Humphry Repton but the existing house was Victorian and undistinguished.
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Trent Park was used as a centre to extract information from captured German officers.
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The rooms at Trent Park had been equipped with hidden microphones that allowed the British to listen in to the pilots' conversations.
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An example of the intelligence gained from Trent Park is the existence and location of the German rocket development at Peenemunde Army Research Center, when General von Thoma discussed what he had seen there.
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Transcripts from Trent Park are included in the 2011 book Soldaten – On Fighting, Killing, and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs by historian Sonke Neitzel and social psychologist Harald Welzer.
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In 1973 Trent Park was opened to the public as a country park, which at that time surrounded the university buildings and is 320 hectares in area.
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The Friends of Trent Park made a brochure with map available for free download.
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Trent Park was used as the location for scenes set in and around a boys' boarding school in the 1983 Doctor Who story, "Mawdryn Undead", featuring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor.
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