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An old cottage and the largest walnut tree at Bossington. • village in the Holnicote Estate. which has been ..

... An old cottage and the largest walnut tree at Bossington. • village in the Holnicote Estate. which has been presented to the nation by Sir Richard Acland, wealthy landowner and M.P. for Barnstaple, Devon. - • - _ . Irk•-•,.., , , -- '7 ----- A- • Ng ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1943
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

17,000 ACRES FOR NATIONAL

... 17,000 ACRES FOR NATIONAL The )(Merton and Holnicote Estates in Devon and Somerset are to be presented to the National Trust by Sir Richard Acland. The Holnicote estate, which goes down to the sea north of Porlock. lies between Dunkery Beacon and North ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1943
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH DUTIES

... are intended to reduce the size of property holdings on the death of each owner. On my death, either the Killerton or the Holnicote estate would have to be sold, and on the death of my son, the remaining estate would have to be broken up. This would mean ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1944
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PRIMROSE LEAGUE

... of reaching the general public and all unattached voters. SIR ROBERT SANDERS NOT STANDING AGAIN. Mr. B. Crompton Wood, of Holnicote, Somcrset. was on Wednesday adooted prospective Conservative candidate for Bridgwater Division in succession to Sir Robert ...

—and Surprises

... reaches them three weeks before it arrives in the North. Wild roses were in hard bud when I left Yorkshire; in the hedges of Holnicote they were shedding their petals. I recall Horner, the hamlet clinging to the edge of the towering woods where the stags roam ...

THE BUDGET SURPLUS

... evening fthat Sir Jamet Craig is making satisfactory progress, and be back Parliament after recess. B. Crompton Wood, of Holnicote, Somerset, was Wednesday adopted prospective Conservative candidate for th* bridgwater iiivision of the county , succession ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1924
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WORLD OF

... read with gratitude yesterday that this old-worid hamlet North Devon, together with other equally delectable parts of the Holnicote estate, has been presented to the National Trust by Sir Richard Acland. They hold treasured holiday memories of this rich ...

SIR R. ACLAND GIVES ESTATES TO NATIONAL TRUST Burden On My Conscience

... this income, that was mine, will now be available primarily for the improvement of the estate._ '6ll:s — eState. with the Holnicote lEstate, has been in the hands of members of my family for a considerable number of years. It is to me more .important that ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1944
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LORD MAYORALTY OF YORK

... saiisfactory, and she is slowly regaining strength. Sir Thomas and Lady Acland have been celebrating their silver wedding at Holnicote, their Somerset residence. Kitchener, brother of Lord Kitchener, has left England for India, take the command the Lahore ...

Published: Tuesday 08 November 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ATIONAL PARKS

... there are nearly 10,000 acres Tri st land| In this part of England. The lar| est single property owned by the Trust the Holnicote Estate In Exmoor. which, wit a Dunkejry Beacon added, amounts to well over 7,000 acres of the finest Exmoor country. ess ...

Wholesale Arrests Of Rumanian Democrats As thousands of rank-and-file Rumanian Democrats wars being arrested by ..

... runs over the village of Attache, Captain Niebuhr. who Bakumbart. on the Papuanlnust leave the country at the coast near Holnicote Bay. iusCrequest of the Argentine north of Gona puthorities on account of his A later despatch from Curtis proved espionage ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1943
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 616 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Japs Pinned to Coastal Strip in New Guinea

... three-day naval action in the' Solomons area last week end. A cruiser and a destroyer have also been sunk Allied aircraft in Holnicote Bay, off the Gona-Buna area. The.'.'.additional Japanese losses-In the Guadalcanal area -by an American task force under ...

Published: Friday 20 November 1942
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 4 | Tags: none