The Brickendonbury estate, has a long and colourful history. Little is known about it until Saxon times (approx. 500 AD), when the hill site was claimed by the Saxon, Brica. The word don means hill - the bury was added in medieval times and indicates the site of a manor house: hence Brickendonbury, a fortified manor house standing on Brica's hill. The estate is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 and parts of the mansion are known to date back to the late 1600's.
The estate has had numerous owners and uses from a private preparatory school for boys to a training centre for agents and resistance workers in industrial sabotage during the Second World War. Since 1974 it has been the home to the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre (TARRC), a research laboratory and promotion centre of the Malaysian Rubber Board.
The mansion has recently been restored and repainted to provide elegant working accommodation and the attractive grounds are constantly being cared for to create a stunningly unique environment for staff. Parts of the mansion ground floor have been refurbished into three completely unique rooms, The Blue Room, The Cedar Room and The Jacobean Hall, providing a completely independent conference facility: Brickendonbury Conference Centre.
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