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Burwood Park is a residential estate in Hersham, Surrey in the United Kingdom. It consists of approximately 400 detached houses dating from the early 20th century to the present day. Its roads are a geometric design within an approximate semicircle and many of its roads have entrances with automatic bollards or security buildings.HistoryMention of Burwood in historical records appears as early as 962 AD. At that time an Anglo-Saxon settlement at Walton-on-Thames existed, physically evidenced by its church built in the 12th century principal structure incorporating flint stone of this period. It was one of six parishes in the heavily wooded hundred (former county subdivision) — the present, Hersham parish was formed in 1851. From 1066 Burwood was one of the four Norman manors in the parish and was equated with Walton Leigh. This was conveyed by the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford to John Carleton from whom King Henry VIII purchased it in 1540. He ordered Burwood as with the Ashley and Oatlands manors to be converted to a deer park or woodland for him to enjoy and later awarded it to a tenant-in-chief.Between 1617 and 1720, Burwood Park passed through a succession of purchasers and their heirs, the names of whom are in Royal records such as feet of fines, but of these, a nationally notable owner is John Latton who purchased the main house in the estate in 1720. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey under Queen Anne and had been a great favourite of William III (of Orange) for whom he held several important posts. He enlarged Burwood from its own demise of 18 acres, to its present extent 360acre by buying up part of Walton Common, glebe around the perimeter and the little hamlet of Burwood with its windmill (later damaged and taken down in 1797) which was on the site of the house Webbers' Ridge in Cranley Road.