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The Holnicote Estate (/ ˈ h ʌ n ɪ ˌ k ʌ t /) is a property consisting of 5,026 hectares (12,420 acres) of Exmoor National Park situated in West Somerset. The property was donated to the National Trust in 1944 by Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet; it had been in the Acland family since 1745. [71]
In 1925 the property was purchased by Lt-Col Reginald Cooper, who was the oldest friend of Sir Harold Nicolson, having been his contemporary at Wellington College and a colleague in the Diplomatic Corps. Nicholson was the owner of Sissinghurst Castle Garden, and both were friends of Hidcote Manor Garden's Major Lawrence Johnston and Edwin ...
The company's in-house Services teams operate its Retirement Living and Retirement Living PLUS (Extra Care) schemes built since 2008. [43] In its Retirement Living PLUS schemes, services include the provision of CQC-regulated care and support. It is the largest provider of new Extra Care developments in the UK. [44]
Summerset Group Holdings Ltd was founded in 1994 by John O'Sullivan, a Wellington-based property developer [2] initially opening a small hospital in Levin that year and a similar one in Waikanae in 1995. In 1997 the first retirement village with a hospital and rest home was opened in Wanganui.
The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, 113 metres (371 ft) in diameter and the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury); it is considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built. [40] The Great Circle was surrounded by a ditch and is accompanied by smaller stone circles to the north east and south west.
The two-storey house is built of chert stone with Hamstone dressings and slate roofs. [1] The long barn was built in the 16th or 17th century and has a cruck roof with a bell-cote at its apex. [2] Another 18th-century barn. which had been a pigeon loft, [5] has been converted into a squash court. [3] The estate also had an overshot watermill. [10]
Tone Dale House (or Tonedale House) is a Grade II listed country house built in 1801 or 1807 by Thomas Fox in Wellington, Somerset, England.Wellington lies 7 miles (11 km) west of Taunton in the vale of Taunton Deane, 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Devon border.
The gateway. During the medieval era the estate included a deer park on Cothelstone Hill which is 1.3 kilometres (0.8 mi) away, orchards and ponds. [5]To the north and east of the house are formal gardens of around 1 hectare (2.5 acres) which was built over for a model farm in 1867, [5] within the restored medieval park which is listed on the English Heritage National Register of Historic ...