Estate village

An estate village is a village wholly within and part of a private estate. Usually several hundred years old, they are often well preserved by the family that owns the estate. They often have small commercial operations such as pubs, craft shops, and village stores, as well as rented residential housing. The individual properties are maintained and managed by the estate manager and rented individually to residential and commercial tenants.

List of estate villages

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2024)

England

Name County Estate Image Former? Notes and references
Abbotsbury Dorset [1]
Adlestrop Gloucestershire Adlestrop Park
Albury Surrey Albury Park [2]
Batsford Gloucestershire Batsford Park
Beeley Derbyshire Chatsworth House [3]
Bugthorpe East Riding of Yorkshire Garrowby Hall [4]
Charlton Abbots Gloucestershire
Chettle Dorset Chettle House [5]
Chilton Buckinghamshire Chilton House
Clovelly Devon Clovelly Court [2]
Cowling North Yorkshire Thornton Watlass Hall
Downham Lancashire Downham Hall [6]
East Hauxwell North Yorkshire Hauxwell Hall
East Quantoxhead Somerset Court House, East Quantoxhead [7]
Edensor Derbyshire Chatsworth House [3]
Edmondsham Dorset Edmondsham House [8]
Elveden Suffolk Elveden Hall
Englefield Berkshire Englefield House [9]
Firle East Sussex Firle Place [2]
Glynde East Sussex Glynde Place [2]
Great Barrington Gloucestershire Barrington Park [10]
Great Limber Lincolnshire Brocklesby Hall [11]
Great Tew Oxfordshire [2]
Ham Gloucestershire Berkeley Castle
Heydon Norfolk Heydon Hall [2]
Holkham Norfolk Holkham Hall
Lacock Wiltshire Lacock Abbey [12]
Linkenholt Hampshire [2]
Little Barford Bedfordshire
Little Walsingham Norfolk The Abbey, Little Walsingham
Lythe North Yorkshire Mulgrave Castle
Milton Abbas Dorset Milton Abbey
Molland Devon [13]
Peper Harow Surrey Peper Harow House [14]
Pilsley Derbyshire Chatsworth House [3]
Ripley North Yorkshire Ripley Castle [2]
Rockingham Northamptonshire Rockingham Castle No [15]
Selworthy Somerset Holnicote Estate National Trust-owned[12]
Shenton Leicestershire Shenton Hall Shenton Hall sold
Sherborne Gloucestershire Sherborne House [12]
Sotterley Suffolk Sotterley Hall
Stanway Gloucestershire Stanway House [16]
Tissington Derbyshire Tissington Hall [2]
Trevalga Cornwall [17]
Well Lincolnshire Well Vale Hall
West Heslerton North Yorkshire [18]
Yattendon Berkshire [2]

Scotland

Name County Estate Image Former? Notes and references
Abbey St Bathans Berwickshire Abbey St Bathans House
Berriedale Highland

Ireland

New Zealand

Name County Estate Image Former? Notes and references
Barrhill Canterbury, South Island Cathcart Wason [19]

References

  1. ^ "Abbotsbury Estate". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Passino, Carla (27 March 2021). "Inside Britain's privately owned villages". Country Life. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Chatsworth Estate". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Garrowby Estate". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  5. ^ Dominic, Acland (5 October 2021). "Changing Chettle". Wessex Community Assets. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  6. ^ Cooke, Emma (21 January 2020). "10 forgotten English villages you'd never thought to visit". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2024. ... the Assheton family ... have been responsible for the village ... since 1558 ...
  7. ^ "East Quantoxhead Estate". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  8. ^ "Edmondsham Estate". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  9. ^ "Englefield Estate". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Great Barrington Village". BFIPlayer. 1973. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Brocklesby Park Estate". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  12. ^ a b c "Discover the National Trust Land Map". National Trust. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  13. ^ "Molland Estate". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  14. ^ Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1971) [1962]. The Buildings of England: Surrey (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 407. ISBN 0-300-09675-5.
  15. ^ "Rockingham Castle". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  16. ^ "Wemyss Estate: Stanway, Gloucestershire". HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  17. ^ Grierson, Jamie (9 October 2023). "'Battle of Trevalga' ends with Cornish estate's sale to property giant". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  18. ^ "BBC News, West Heslerton: Entire village goes up for sale for £20m". BBC News. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
  19. ^ Pawson, Eric. "Wason, John Cathcart". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
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