family home, wotton, surrey

John Evelyn's birth place and home. Now a conference and hotel complex, he did the gardens and collected an extensive library as well as wrote books and finished the diary. still owned by the evelyn's from the Godstone, Nutfield side of the family. the manor dates from 1100's as a moated building; evelyn surname is first listed publicly as WILLIAM AVELYN fl.1440; george the patriarch from 1550's made billions in gunpowder! bought property at nutfield, godstone, wotton for his sixteen children