Wing's "Annals of Bletchingdon" p.54
said that Heathfield House was built by
Thomas Walker in 1816, and that the land
had been "waste or not much better than
waste land before then". As the
following documents show, Walker had
bought the land from James, Lord
Arundel, in 1814. The history of the
land before 1752 is not known.
As can be seen from the following deeds,
the property was bought by Arthur
Annesley (XIII), Viscount Valentia in
1868 as a dower house for his mother and
stepfather.