Estate village explained

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

England

NameCountyEstateImageFormer?Notes and references
AbbotsburyDorset[1]
AdlestropGloucestershireAdlestrop Park
AlburySurreyAlbury Park
AlportDerbyshireHaddon Hall
BatsfordGloucestershireBatsford Park
BeeleyDerbyshireChatsworth House[2]
BugthorpeEast Riding of YorkshireGarrowby Hall[3]
Charlton AbbotsGloucestershire
ChettleDorsetChettle House[4]
ChiltonBuckinghamshireChilton House
ClovellyDevonClovelly Court[5]
CowlingNorth YorkshireThornton Watlass Hall
DownhamLancashireDownham Hall[6]
East HauxwellNorth YorkshireHauxwell Hall
East QuantoxheadSomersetCourt House, East Quantoxhead[7]
EdensorDerbyshireChatsworth House
EdmondshamDorsetEdmondsham House[8]
ElvedenSuffolkElveden Hall
EnglefieldBerkshireEnglefield House[9]
FirleEast SussexFirle Place
GlyndeEast SussexGlynde Place
Great BarringtonGloucestershireBarrington Park[10]
Great LimberLincolnshireBrocklesby Hall[11]
Great TewOxfordshire
HamGloucestershireBerkeley Castle
HeydonNorfolkHeydon Hall
HolkhamNorfolkHolkham Hall
LacockWiltshireLacock Abbey
LinkenholtHampshire
Little BarfordBedfordshire
Little WalsinghamNorfolkThe Abbey, Little Walsingham
LytheNorth YorkshireMulgrave Castle
Milton AbbasDorsetMilton Abbey
MollandDevon[12]
Peper HarowSurreyPeper Harow House[13]
PilsleyDerbyshireChatsworth House
RipleyNorth YorkshireRipley Castle
RockinghamNorthamptonshireRockingham CastleNo[14]
RowsleyDerbyshireHaddon Hall
SelworthySomersetHolnicote EstateNational Trust-owned[15]
ShentonLeicestershireShenton HallShenton Hall sold
SherborneGloucestershireSherborne House
SotterleySuffolkSotterley Hall
StanwayGloucestershireStanway House[16]
TissingtonDerbyshireTissington Hall
TrevalgaCornwall[17]
WellLincolnshireWell Vale Hall
West HeslertonNorth Yorkshire[18]
YattendonBerkshire
YokefleetEast Riding of YorkshireYokefleet HallY[19]

Scotland

NameCountyEstateImageFormer?Notes and references
Abbey St BathansBerwickshireAbbey St Bathans House
BerriedaleHighland

Ireland

New Zealand

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Abbotsbury Estate. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 26 February 2024.
  2. Web site: Chatsworth Estate. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 26 February 2024.
  3. Web site: Garrowby Estate. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 10 March 2024.
  4. Web site: Changing Chettle. Wessex Community Assets. 5 October 2021. 6 March 2024. Acland. Dominic.
  5. News: Inside Britain's privately owned villages. Country Life. 27 March 2021. Passino. Carla. 6 March 2024.
  6. News: 10 forgotten English villages you'd never thought to visit. 21 January 2020. 6 March 2024. Cooke. Emma. Telegraph.co.uk. ... the Assheton family ... have been responsible for the village ... since 1558 ....
  7. Web site: East Quantoxhead Estate. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 26 February 2024.
  8. Web site: Edmondsham Estate. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 26 February 2024.
  9. Web site: Englefield Estate. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 6 March 2024.
  10. Web site: Great Barrington Village. BFIPlayer. 1973. 24 April 2024.
  11. Web site: Brocklesby Park Estate. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 10 March 2024.
  12. Web site: Molland Estate. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 6 March 2024.
  13. Book: Nairn. Ian. Ian Nairn. Pevsner. Nikolaus. Nikolaus Pevsner. The Buildings of England: Surrey. Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. 1971. 1962. 2nd. 0-300-09675-5. 407.
  14. Web site: Rockingham Castle. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 26 February 2024.
  15. Web site: Discover the National Trust Land Map. National Trust. 25 April 2024.
  16. Web site: Wemyss Estate: Stanway, Gloucestershire. HM Revenue & Customs Land, Buildings and their contents. 10 March 2024.
  17. News: 'Battle of Trevalga' ends with Cornish estate's sale to property giant. The Guardian. 9 October 2023. Grierson. Jamie. 6 March 2024.
  18. News: BBC News, West Heslerton: Entire village goes up for sale for £20m . BBC News . 4 April 2016 . 2016-04-04.
  19. Web site: Blacktoft Parish Council, Yokefleet . Blacktoft Parish Council. 23 July 2024 . 2024-07-23.

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