Brownhill House, Southampton
In late 1892 or early 1893 Augustus Hills Cobbold (1854 – 1931) and his third wife Ellen Stanley nee Townsend (1857 – 1933) purchased Brownhill House in Nursling near Southampton which stood in about 4 acres of open country through which ran a little brook, and set about planting a flower garden and a water garden. Their two children and five of their six grandchildren were born at Brownhill House.
