OLD ESTATE SOLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 16 (Supplement)

OLD ESTATE SOLD.

PART OF LAND FOR NATION

One of the most stately homes in England. Ashridge House, near Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, has been resold. The house, with its park of 1100 acres, was part of the Ashridge Park Estate of about, IO.oOU acres. The transaction has involved about £'_!.~>o.oi Ml. and the S7OO acres which have already changed hands include, in addition to the mansion and th • park:— Twenty farms. Fishing rights in the River tiade. Bridge water Arms Hotel. All cottages in the village of Little (Jaddesden. Ashridge House, which had to be sold under the will of the late Lord Brownlow. i- 011 the site of a favourite home of O'i'-en Elizabeth before her accession ; to the throne. It was from Ashridge, that she wa- taken to the Tower to J answer the charge of treason against j \)ueeu v. The present man-ion was 1 built in ISOO. I'arl ot the property was secured for the nation by ;hc purchase of o\er 1700 acres by the National Trust, with funds' obtained by public subscription, in 10'itj. About 11 (.HI acres of the estate remain J tor -ale. and include four farms, partlv • adjoining the property of the National : Iru-i, and close to the new open-air zoo. land- leased to the county council for' small-holdings, and a few collates, which will be ottered by auction in the near future. ; The 10.000 acres were purchased by a client ot Me — y-. Hampton and Sons in j November last, and the re-sale has been : conducted by them, acting in Conjunction with Messrs. Lofts and Warner,