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Polesden Lacey is an Edwardian house and estate, located on the North Downs at Great Bookham, ... The bequest included approximately 1,000 acres (400 ha) ...
Pitchford Hall Façade. Pitchford Hall is a Grade I listed Tudor country house in the village of Pitchford, Shropshire, 6 miles south east of Shrewsbury.. It was built c.1560 on the site of a medieval building and has been modified several times since, particularly in the 1870s and 1880s when it was substantially restored, remodelled and extended.
Knole (/ n oʊ l /) is a British country house and former archbishop's palace owned by the National Trust.It is situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent.
During much of the 20th century, the 1,420 hectares (3,510 acres) estate featured a resident workforce of security guards, gardeners, and laborers, and had its own farming, cattle, and food supplies. It has a nine-hole, reversible golf course, and at one time had 75 houses and 70 private roads, most designed by John D. Rockefeller Sr. and his son.
The undisputed pioneer of this type of housing was Abraham Levitt, whose company, Levitt and Sons, developed a 1,000-acre plot of land on Long Island in 1947. Levittown, New York was filled with ...
The Grade A listed [16] Church of St Michael and All Angels was founded and built by Ralph de Pitchford in 1220 AD; the estate's website describes the church as Norman. [17] The church was remodelled in the 13th century, the east wall of the chancel was rebuilt in 1719, the vestry was added in 1819, and the church was restored in 1910.
Jeff Benton uses only a fraction of his 20-acre Orange Circle Farm, whose previous owners placed the Berwick, Maine, property under an easement when they sold it to him in 2017. For Benton, crop ...
Following Henry's death in 1991 the house and 1,000 acre estate was owned jointly by the purchaser's grandson Henry Edward ("Harry") Johnson, with his mother Carol. Harry Johnson served as chairman of the Warwickshire Branch of the National Farmers Union (2010–11) [ 28 ] and chairman of the West Midlands Regional Board of the NFU (2010–14).