SALE OF NOTED VILLAGE
AUSTRALIAN OWNER’S PLAN PICTURESQUE ENGLISH PARK INHABITANTS PERTURBED HOUSING SCHEME FEARED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 18. Mr. Craven-Smith Milnes, formerly a station overseer in Australia, is selling the village of Winkbum, Nottinghamshire, which his father, an ex-Australian sheepfarmer, who died in May, inherited in 1930. Winkhom is noted for its picturesqueness and includes a mansion, the lawn cf which possesses the largest copper beech in England. There is a park, an inn, 280 acres of woodland, several farms and a church containing the family vault and the tombs of generations of Burnells, the previous possessors. As the village has been bought probably for housing developments, the villagers fear the sale will destroy a selfcontained community that has existed since Henry VIII. gave Winkburn to the first Squire Burnell, his auditor. Tie announcement of the sale follows Mr. Milne’s engagement to Miss Betty Topham, a Yorkshire girl.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1933, Page 5
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