THE MANOR OF NEW HALL , AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY KNOWN WAS OWNED BY SIR THOMAS BOLEYN, IN 1517 KING HENRY VIII ACQUIRED THE ESTATE AND TRANSFORMED IT INTO A MAGNIFICENT BRICK PALACE WITH FORMAL GATE HOUSES, LARGE SYMMETRICAL COURTYARDS AND A MASSIVE WALLED DEER PARK.

IT BECAME ONE OF HIS PRIMARY RESIDENCES WHICH HE RENAMED THE PALACE OF BEAULIEU, MEANING " BEAUTIFUL PLACE" IN FRENCH.

THE PALACE LATER BECAME THE MAIN RESIDENCE OF QUEEN MARY I, HENRY THE VIII DAUGHTER, MARY TUDOR.

QUEEN ELIZABETH I, LATER GRANTED IT TO THE EARL OF SUSSEX.

IN 1799 CATHOLIC SEPULCHRINE NUNS FOUNDED NEW HALL SCHOOL.