VILLAGE FOR SALE
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE PROPERTY FORMER AUSTRALIAN OWNER LONDON, July 18 Mr. Craven-Smith-Milnes, formerly a station overseer in Australia, is selling the village of Winkburn, in Nottinghamshire, which his father (formerly an Australian sheep farmer, who died in May) inherited in 1930. Winkburn is noted for its picturesqueness and includes a mansion, on the lawn of which is the largest copper beech tree in England. The village has a park, an inn, 280 acres of woodland, several farms and a church containing a family vault with the tombs of generations of Burnells, the previous possessors. The villagers fear that the sale will destroy the self-contained community that has existed since Henry VIII, gave Winkburn to the first Squire Burnell, his auditor, as it will probably be bought for housing developments. The announcement of the sale follows Mr. Milnes' engagement to Miss Bettv Topham, a Yorkshire girl,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21548, 20 July 1933, Page 11
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