- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Do keep up at the back please!
I’m waiting to hear about how the equestrian business failed after one of the horses died in an awkward spot.
600 Acer's and nothing
- Thread starter OldVicarageEnterprisesLTD
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I’m waiting to hear about how the equestrian business failed after one of the horses died in an awkward spot.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Having a tenant in situ will be a great asset
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it a bit strange that many years ago in the 1950s,
or there abouts, the house and buildings were demolished and taken away, from an 800 acre farm, leaving only bare land, how odd is that ?
or there abouts, the house and buildings were demolished and taken away, from an 800 acre farm, leaving only bare land, how odd is that ?
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Either a spate of castle rustling, or that phase when it was cheaper to have a minor stately home broken up for salvage, and the ruin blown all abroad with dynamite?
Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain - Wikipedia
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
OK I will go with that,Either a spate of castle rustling, or that phase when it was cheaper to have a minor stately home broken up for salvage, and the ruin blown all abroad with dynamite?
Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
But what about the buildings, 800 acres back then would be a very big parcel of land not to have buildings,
Unless it was an airfield, but I rule that out, due to the post with the very restricted access to the land,
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
What you mean it could be Hectares? Blimey
Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
OP said it was South of Newbury, so perhaps it’s Greenham Common!
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Not strange at all. Back in the 50s housing was not the road to riches it became after the inflationary booms of the 70s and beyond. It actually cost you money in taxes and repairs (many country properties were in very poor repair), and did not appreciate much. As such the large estates flattened many houses as no-one wanted to buy them and renting them out was highly regulated (Rent Acts etc) so it made sense to knock them down. As a child growing up in the 70s it was commonplace to see abandoned cottages or farmhouses slowly mouldering away, it wasn't until the property boom of the 80s that people suddenly all wanted dilapidated properties to renovate. Its entirely possible that some estate landlord might want to reduce his ongoing income tax liabilities and/or his prospective inheritance tax liability by clearing an unwanted farmyard and farmhouse. Now we see such property as a goldmine, then it was a money pit.
I live in a village where all the land used to be owned by a large estate, they cleared somewhere up to a dozen houses in the 50s and 60s. Now these houses would be worth hundreds of thousands, if not 7 figures, then they were just a liability.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Not at all odd, they were still taking down farmhouses in Norfolk when I moved there in 1986. One local to me the farmer was then applying 5 years later to rebuild a house he had knocked. He got it but only after a lot of opposition from locals as he was another A******le
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Loads of estate manor houses were dynamited round here in the fifties
Should have done em all
Should have done em all
- Location
- Fife
And guillotined the owners in the market square?
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
If they were lucky
I read that during the french revolution that only the lucky ones were guillotined
The unlucky aristocracy were torn to pieces by the mob
- Location
- Fife
Great!
You organise the mob, I'll start fitting a guillotine to the back of my pick up. We'll be TFFs very own mobile justice squad. You drop em, I'll chop em.
Viva la revolution! Viva la Republica!
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Oliveau
Member
- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
Now that you lot have gone totally off-beam the OP has gone quiet - Perhaps she thinks you are unsympathetic to her cause ...................... I can't think why.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Zimbabwe are only amateursAll sounds a bit zimbabwe-esq....
Don't think that ended well
Somebody South of Newbury must know of this land, there's not an inch of ground around most areas that the neighbouring farmers don't know about
Oliveau
Member
- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
Since we are in fantasy land [perhaps] - Highclere Estate is south of Newbury; The TV home of Downton. Perhaps Lord Grantham or one of his daughters had a love child..........................
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Plenty of land would fit that description in the Highlands and I am not sure I would want it at the price mentioned! 
I knew an old gamekeeper on such a property who was bothered by "environmentalists". He solved that by suggesting they go forth and multiply or he'd be up at 4am on a Sunday morning with a box of matches and they wouldn't have anything to bother him about again. I gather it worked!
I knew an old gamekeeper on such a property who was bothered by "environmentalists". He solved that by suggesting they go forth and multiply or he'd be up at 4am on a Sunday morning with a box of matches and they wouldn't have anything to bother him about again. I gather it worked!