Revesby Estate History

In 1820 the Estate passed through the Banks family and into the Stanhope's. James Banks Stanhope inherited the Estate in 1842 (he was Secretary of State for War at the time) and started by building a grand mansion house, the third dwelling to be called Revesby Abbey. The reservoir was created in 1860 to supply water to the local town of Boston. In the late 1800s he built many houses, which the Estate still owns today. Stanhope also built the church in Revesby and the church at Wilksby. According to records the church at Wilksby cost only £99.00

The last Stanhope was the Honourable Richard Stanhope who was killed on the Somme in 1916. With his death, after 96 years in the Stanhope family, the Estate went to his widow Lady Beryl, who remarried and had two children. Her son, Humphrey T Gilbert, won a D.F.C. in the Battle of Britain but was killed in a Spitfire in 1942. This resulted in his sister, Mrs Ann D Lee, inheriting the Estate in 1958. Mrs A Lee and her husband, Commander C. Lee, then built the current Revesby Park House in 1963, where Mrs Lee lived until her death in 2006. Mrs Lee was a special lady who was greatly respected in the local community; demonstrated by the number of people that attended her funeral. The Estate then was handed down to her son, Mr Gavin Wiggins-Davies The Wiggins-Davies family consist of Gavin, his wife Stania and their two sons Alexander and Peter. The family run the Estate.