Holker Hall: ‘In the world of AI, people visiting our estate want to see the real thing’
Cavendish’s family has lived at Holker since 1756 when the estate passed from the Lowther family to Lord George Cavendish,...
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‘Our estate might be the home of Bake Off, but it’s still hard to break even’
If you can’t work out why Welford Park looks familiar, you’re not alone. Since 2014, its grounds have played a...
‘The rich are being attacked everywhere. We don’t have hoards in the bank – we have mortgages’
Down in the bowels of Broughton Sanctuary – eight miles from Skipton, North Yorkshire – is a framed newspaper cutting....
‘I’ve spent millions on my 5,000-acre estate – and I don’t even own it’
In 2016, David Howden CBE, an insurance magnate, was in the market to buy an estate when he encountered Grade...
‘We’ve always treated our 6,000-acre estate like an elderly relative that needs looking after’
There is, it turns out, a knack for herding deer. “You have to be very careful that you’re driving on...
‘I’ve spent almost a decade trying to drag my 300-year-old country estate into the 21st century’
It was Sept 13, 1774 and Dr Samuel Johnson, the writer, was making a note in his journal: “We came...
Inveraray Castle: ‘Our Scottish estate spans 75,000 acres – it takes 10 industries to keep it afloat’
Her late mother-in-law, Iona, Duchess of Argyll, certainly got her hands dirty. When she married Ian Campbell, Marquess of Lorne,...
‘My father put Britain’s stately homes on the map – now our future is far from certain’
Remarkably, so did everyone else. In 1956, Edward Montagu opened the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, “and if you look...
