The Tern Valley Trail - Wellington's 'Quality Row'

Mansion House Lane

Parville

In its days as Mansion House Lane, Vineyard Road began at the north end of Church Street. In the early 1970s the road was extended to its present junction with King Street. Although there are several large properties in the area, the mansion house from which the street took its name was probably the distinctive white Georgian building that stands above Springhill roundabout. 'The Vineyard' appears to have been finished in 1721, when the exterior of the property was 'painted-in' for its first owner St John Charlton Chiverton Charlton, the naval officer and owner of the nearby Apley Castle estate who was responsible for its construction.