Bulletin 98 – 29th July 2014

WOODLANDS TO LET: On the Coleorton side of the estate, a couple of miles outside Ashby, we are offering small woods to let from the end of September.  Planted about twenty years ago they are ready for thinning, the timber suitable for logs or chips.  People renting a...

Bulletin 97 – 23rd June 2014

Staunton and the Juggernauts Who remembers how things were sixty years ago when the Staunton Harold Estate was sold up?  Not many of us now, and when I think back it’s hard to recall how different it all was, the buildings mostly semi-derelict, the three drives...

Bulletin 96 – 23rd May 2014

Staunton Harold – Land of Opportunities Daughter Caroline and her husband, Andrew, have just taken on David in a permanent, if hybrid, role.  He had previously helped out on the farm, now he also works in their land agency business.  So it might be dagging...

Bulletin 95 – 22nd April 2014

Win some, lose some ‘STAUNTON HAROLD – A COUNTRY ESTATE IN THE 21ST CENTURY.’  Our new booklet is now published, and available from the Tearooms in the Ferrers Centre, the Red Hut in the Estate Car Park and the Tourist Office in Ashby de la Zouch. ...

Bulletin 94 – 23rd March 2014

Win some, lose some Another fine sunny day; Jacqueline and I set out to plant a tree in the arboretum.  It is a specimen fir tree, with striking silver grey needles, added as an afterthought when we collected forest trees from the nursery.  We chose an open space...

Bulletin 93 – March 2014

Economy of Scale Trumps Localism  Some three hundred acres of our Staunton Harold Estate are occupied by a diary farm, the largest in the area.  For as long as anyone can remember the milk has gone for processing to nearby Ashby de la Zouch  But not any more; Ashby is...