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North Frith Park is a Grade II listed Victorian mansion house and estate in Hadlow, Tonbridge.

Recorded as early as 1460 North Frith was a hunting park owned by the owners of Hadlow Manor and passing through the Clare family, and then the Stafford family. Estimates of its original size range from  fifteen hundred to two thousand acres and would have occupied parts of Hadlow,Shipbourne, West Peckham, Tonbridge, and Hildenborough parishes.

The first Grant of North Frith as a hunting park was made in 1521 to Sir Henry Guildford who was Master of the Kings Household and Master of the Horse. Sir Henry Guildford held North Frith until his death in 1532, when his widow sold it back to the Crown.

Then Hadlow manor and North Frith passed in Edward VI's reign to John Dudley, later Duke of Northumberland. North Frith the passed through a period of grants, forfeitures, and re-grants.

Then in Henry VIII's reign, Sir Henry Isley of Sundridge became keeper of the park of North Frith, Finally, in 1558, Elizabeth granted the park, with the manor, to her first cousin, Sir Henry Carey.

By the 19th century North Frith was also being used for farming and at the time of the 1840 tithe survey it was owned by Christopher Idle

The current house was built in 1889 and has been the home to North Frith Park has formerly been the home of the Horne family of Horne Brothers Ltd.

Converted into luxury flats and homes in 2001 the 65 acre estate now contains 27 homes.