Tittenhurst Park was the home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono from the late summer of 1969 until August 1971, and then the home of Ringo Starr and family until the late-1980s. It is located on a 72-acre estate off London Road at Beggar's Bush near Sunninghill and over the parish border into Sunningdale, both in the English county of Berkshire. Lennon bought the house for £145,000 from Peter Cadbury. The estate included spectacular gardens, a Tudor cottage and servants' cottages.
A century earlier, in 1869, the property was owned by Thomas Holloway, philanthropist and founder of two large institutions which he built nearby: Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water, Surrey, and Royal Holloway College, now known as Royal Holloway, University of London in Englefield Green.
Read more about Tittenhurst Park: John Lennon and Tittenhurst Park, Ascot Sound Studios, Startling Studios
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—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)