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Sandon Hall forms part of Harrowby Estates [view] with the Harrowby family owning property in both Staffordshire and Gloucestershire. |
Harrowby Estates
The Sandon Estate, located east of Stafford, comprises 4,750 acres which includes the outstanding 400 acre parkland which is delightfully undulating and was laid out in the 18th century by the distinguished landscape architect William Eames. The Norton Estate in Gloucestershire at Aston-sub-Edge near Chipping Campden has almost 1,650 acres and is best known for its literary connections with T. S. Eliot and his ‘Four Quartets’.
The Estates are run from the Harrowby Estates Office at Sandon (01889 508347) and the portfolio includes residential and commercial property, a forestry department, sawmill, canal moorings, let farmland and grazing together with a Home Farm (Ryder Farms).
The 7th Earl of Harrowby (b.1922)