"Suffolk C-E". The Domesday Book Online. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
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Springfield, Maurice, Hunting Opium and Other Scents, Halesworth, Suffolk, 1966, Chapter 8, "Searching for Game""Tales of old Shanghai - Library - HUNTING OPIUM and other Scents". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2015.: "Later came glorious Sundays as guest of the late Alastair Watson on his perfect ground at Chillesford, near Orford, in a gorgeous setting among pine trees. Before 1940 the ponies on which he mounted his guests were thoroughbred, or near thoroughbred. After the war, until his untimely death, all mounts were selected Arabs flown to England in specially chartered planes. Those were certainly the golden days of polo in East Anglia."
Advertised for sale as "the late Lord Manton's Suffolk estate" in the Times newspaper of 31 March 1922, in order to pay death duties. As reported in the New York Times, 7 May 1922, p.1: "Bargains in Castles"..."That taxation is causing English landlords to dispose of their realty holdings for whatever they will bring is shown by the fact that the total area of the landed properties comprised in a full-page announcement in The Times of London, England, by a single firm exceeds 79,000 acres"[1]
Historic Landscape Appraisal Sudbourne Park, 2010"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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e.g. "Sudbourne Premier", a stallion bred by Lord Manton in 1919 won a number of prizes between 1921 and 1924 [2]
Historic Landscape Appraisal Sudbourne Park, 2010"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Springfield, Maurice, Hunting Opium and Other Scents, Halesworth, Suffolk, 1966, Chapter 8, "Searching for Game""Tales of old Shanghai - Library - HUNTING OPIUM and other Scents". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2015.: "Later came glorious Sundays as guest of the late Alastair Watson on his perfect ground at Chillesford, near Orford, in a gorgeous setting among pine trees. Before 1940 the ponies on which he mounted his guests were thoroughbred, or near thoroughbred. After the war, until his untimely death, all mounts were selected Arabs flown to England in specially chartered planes. Those were certainly the golden days of polo in East Anglia."
