Clewer Park can be found within the village of Clewer

Clewer

Clewer is an ecclesiastical parish and region of Windsor making up three wards of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the English county of Berkshire.-History:...

 to the west of Windsor

Windsor, Berkshire

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 in the United Kingdom

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. Today Clewer Park consists of a small estate of residential homes built during the mid 1950s and a public open parkland.

In former times this land was occupied by the Clewer Park estate. Clewer Park was originally a medieval house. It was modified and eventually bought by Sir Daniel Gooch

Daniel Gooch

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet was an English railway and transatlantic cable engineer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885...

, the 19th century industrialist, railway engineer

Chief Mechanical Engineer

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 and engineer responsible for the first transatlantic cables

Transatlantic telegraph cable

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During World War II

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, the house was used as accommodation for female Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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staff.