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Obscure country seats, mainly

‘In the village there are people who have never seen the castle, don’t know that it exists.’ In 1991 Anthony Wharton inherited the 11,000-acre Skelton Castle estate - passed by descent since the C17th - from a distant cousin. Major Wharton died last week. handedon.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/ske…


NEW “They have a French butler now at Woodhouse, who the young ladies shake hands with, and who chatters and talks all the time he is in the room. He will be an addition indeed. I tremble when I think of him” #CharlesDarwin’s sister writing to him in 1832: handedon.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/woo…


The death has been announced of former High Court judge Sir John Blofeld, whose son is squire of the little-seen family seat, Hoveton House. The Grade I house has passed by descent since its 1680s construction, ‘remarkably little altered through the ages’ handedon.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/hov…


Carlisle Cathedral

handedon's tweet image. Carlisle Cathedral

The Grade I listed Elizabethan banqueting house reflected in the recently revived pond at Weston Hall, near Otley #yorkshire handedon.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/wes…

handedon's tweet image. The Grade I listed Elizabethan banqueting house reflected in the recently revived pond at Weston Hall, near Otley #yorkshire handedon.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/wes…

For a Georgian landed dynasty 137 years was a very long time to go between male heirs. But the Franco-Scottish Mercer family remain at world record holding Meikleour and its Scots Baronial chateau after more than seven centuries: handedon.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/mei…


Marlesford Hall, Suffolk, family seat of Lord Marlesford, who inherited in 1968 and whose death has been announced. handedon.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/mar…

handedon's tweet image. Marlesford Hall, Suffolk, family seat of Lord Marlesford, who inherited in 1968 and whose death has been announced. handedon.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/mar…

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