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==Arbury Park== In 1932,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59304091 |title=Real Estate News |newspaper=[[The Mail (Adelaide)]] |volume=20 |issue=1,038 |location=South Australia |date=16 April 1932 |accessdate=31 October 2023 |page=5 (Women's Section) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Downer bought the property known as Raywood in the [[Adelaide Hills]], which he renamed [[Arbury Park, South Australia|Arbury Park]] after [[Arbury Hall]], near [[Nuneaton]], [[Warwickshire]] where his friends the [[Francis Newdegate|Newdigate family]] lived. He was responsible for the construction of the large [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] mansion and extensive formal gardens and deer park,<ref name=oats>{{cite web | title=The Mansion Adelaide Hills 1969 |first=Sydney| last=Oats|author2=South Australian Heritage| website=[[Flickr]] |date=12 May 2010| quote=Info Courtesy of South Australian Heritage.| url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/57768042@N00/4599990950/ | access-date=31 October 2021}} [https://www.flickr.com/photos/57768042@N00/sets/72157623918667235/ Album]</ref> "which was important to his concept of the property as an English estate". The property, after reversion to its former name when bought by the state government in 1965, is [[heritage-listed]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Heritage details: Dwelling ('Raywood', previously 'Arbury Park') Garden, Chapel, Driveway and Gates | website=SA Heritage Places Database Search| url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=17272 | access-date=31 October 2021}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)] licence.</ref>
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