 An estate survey of 1788 shows the line of the tunnel for the Basingstoke Canal which crosses the north of the estate.The farm was tenanted, Guy Carleton choosing to live at Kempshott nearby and then in Middlesex.He died in 1808 and it was not until around 1824 when the farm had become a gentleman's residence that Arthur Henry Carleton, 2nd Lord Dorchester, finally moved in.