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Named in 1915 after one of the country seats of Viscount Ullswater, brother of local landowner Sir Gerard Lowther. In 1882 Ashe High House and estate, which encompassed 4,100 acres, 144 acres of deer and home parks, and 240 acres of woods and plantations, with 13 farms around Campsea in Suffolk, were sold to William Lowther. The property passed in 1912 to Lowther’s son, James, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1905 until 1921, created subsequently Viscount Ullswater of Campsea Ashe. He died at the High House in March 1949, aged 94. After repeated sales following the Second World War, Ashe High House fell into ruin and only the foundations now survive.
