A replica of Wakehurst Place, an Elizabethan mansion built by Sir Edward Culpeper in 1590, was built at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1884. There is a brief description of the Newport counterpart by Gerald W.E.Loder in Wakehurst Place, Sussex (1907), p. 120, with two photographic views. Part of the grounds of the Ardingly Wakehurst Place, but not the house itself, are open to the public. There are some fine brasses to commemorate the Culpeper family in Ardingly parish church. From one of the Kent branches of the Culpeper family (who lived at Leeds Castle, near Maidstone) came Thomas, 2nd Lord Culpeper (1635-1689) who was commissioned Governor of Virginia in 1675.
