Stocks Manor House is a large Georgian mansion, built in 1773. It is the largest property in the village of Aldbury, Hertfordshire. Stocks House and its manorial farm is an 182-acre (0.74 km2) estate surrounded by 10,000 acres (40 km2) of National Trust Ashridge Forest and the Chiltern Hills.
Stocks House, pictured in around 1995
Stocks as it appeared at the time of Ward's residence (c.1903)
Interior of Stocks at the time of Ward's residence (c.1914)
The swimming pool, pictured during renovations in 2007
Aldbury is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near the borders of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire in the Bulbourne valley of the Chiltern Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The nearest towns are Tring and Berkhamsted. Uphill from the narrow valley are the Bridgewater monument and the Ashridge Estate, a country estate owned and managed by the National Trust.
The duck pond at the centre of the village
Stocks House
Parish Church of St. John The Baptist, Aldbury
The Pendley Chapel inside the Parish Church