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Glencripesdale Burn
The Glencripesdale Estate is a country estate situated along the south side of Loch Sunart, a sea loch in the west highlands of Scotland. Today, the Isle of Càrna is the last remaining part of a once huge acre deer forest, river and grousemoor bought in 1870 by the three Newton brothers, T. H. Goodwin, William III, and Canon Horace Newton of Barrells Hall and Holmwood, Redditch, ancestors of the current family, who are also of direct Milward's Needles descent. History The Glencripesdale Estate once stretched for along the entire south side of Loch Sunart, and the entire east side of Loch Teacuis. The estate comprised the estates of Glencripesdale, Liddesdale and Laudale (16,000 acres) and also Rahoy and Kinlochteacus (10,000 acres). The total estate measured , with waterside access to over of coastline. The highlight of the Estate was Glencripesdale House/Castle which was the mansion the Newton brothers built to house their family and staff. During the three main mon ...
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Glencripesdale 1904 Sale Brochure Cover
The Glencripesdale Estate is a country estate situated along the south side of Loch Sunart, a sea loch in the west highlands of Scotland. Today, the Isle of Càrna is the last remaining part of a once huge acre deer forest, river and grousemoor bought in 1870 by the three Newton brothers, T. H. Goodwin, William III, and Canon Horace Newton of Barrells Hall and Holmwood, Redditch, ancestors of the current family, who are also of direct Milward's Needles descent. History The Glencripesdale Estate once stretched for along the entire south side of Loch Sunart, and the entire east side of Loch Teacuis. The estate comprised the estates of Glencripesdale, Liddesdale and Laudale (16,000 acres) and also Rahoy and Kinlochteacus (10,000 acres). The total estate measured , with waterside access to over of coastline. The highlight of the Estate was Glencripesdale House/Castle which was the mansion the Newton brothers built to house their family and staff. During the three main months ...
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Barrells Hall
Barrells Hall is a large house in the Warwickshire countryside near Henley-in-Arden. The nearest village is Ullenhall, which for many years was the estate village, large parts of it having been built by the owners of Barrells Hall, the Newtons, one of the families who formerly owned Barrells. An adjacent house named Barrells Park was built in about 1950 on part of the Barrells estate. History The earliest mention of Barrels (as it was spelled at that time) was a reference to a Richard Barel in 1405. In 1554 the estate was purchased by Robert Knight of Beoley and remained in the Knight family until 1856. An inventory taken in 1652 shows that it was an ordinary farmhouse, though a Knight appeared in the 1682 visitation of Warwick. When Henrietta St John was banished to Barrells in 1736 (see below) it was still much the same and in very bad condition. On Henrietta’s death her husband, then Lord Catherlough, rebuilt large parts of it. When Catherlough’s son married in 1791 he ...
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Conifers
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida. All extant conifers are perennial woody plants with secondary growth. The great majority are trees, though a few are shrubs. Examples include cedars, Douglas-firs, cypresses, firs, junipers, kauri, larches, pines, hemlocks, redwoods, spruces, and yews.Campbell, Reece, "Phylum Coniferophyta". Biology. 7th. 2005. Print. P. 595 As of 1998, the division Pinophyta was estimated to contain eight families, 68 genera, and 629 living species. Although the total number of species is relatively small, conifers are ecologically important. They are the dominant plants over large areas of land, most notably the taiga of the Northern Hemisphere, but also in similar cool climates in mountains further south. Boreal conifers have many wintertime adaptations. The ...
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Forestry Commission
The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England. The Forestry Commission was previously also responsible for Forestry in Wales and Scotland. However, on 1 April 2013, Forestry Commission Wales merged with other agencies to become Natural Resources Wales, whilst two new bodies (Forestry and Land Scotland and Scottish Forestry) were established in Scotland on 1 April 2019. The Forestry Commission was established in 1919 to expand Britain's forests and woodland, which had been severely depleted during the First World War. The Commission bought large amounts of agricultural land on behalf of the state, eventually becoming the largest manager of land in Britain. Today, the Forestry Commission is divided into three divisions: Forestry England, Forestry Commission and Forest Research. Over time the purpose of the Commission broadened to includ ...
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Glencripesdale House
Glencripesdale House, or Glencripesdale Castle as it was sometimes referred to, was the centre of the Glencripesdale Estate, and was situated along the south side of Loch Sunart, a sea loch in the west highlands of Scotland. Glencripesdale was a grand house built for, and uniquely designed by, the Newton brothers in 1874 and featured 28 bedrooms. Twenty of these bedrooms were large and for the use of family and guests, with the remaining eight for servants quarters with multiple beds, some in dormitory style rooms. The house is believed to be the first in Scotland to be built of the as then state of the art material, Concrete Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and is the most wi .... Materials had to be floated along the loch due to the lack of access to the site from nearby roads, mai ...
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Loch Teacuis
Loch Sunart (Scottish Gaelic ) is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. Loch Sunart is bounded to the north by the Sunart district of Ardnamurchan and to the south by the Morvern district. At long, it is the longest sea loch in the Highland local government area. The maximum depth of the loch is 124 metres, east of Càrna and near the entrance to Loch Teacuis. Other islands in the loch include Oronsay, seaward of Càrna, Risga, which lies between the two larger islands, and Eilean Mòr, which lies towards the landward end of the loch in line with Beinn Resipol. A considerable part of the loch is leased for aquaculture, with fish farming, originally only of salmon but now somewhat diversified, being established in the 1980s. A local legend holds that the absence of resident swans in Loch Sunart is the result of a doomed love affair between a Celtic chieftain and a local girl. When his mother, who opposed a marriage, turned her into a swan to thwart their love, the y ...
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Milward's Needles
Henry Milward & Sons is an English manufacturer of sewing needles based in Redditch. Henry Milward and Sons and its employees boast over a quarter of a millennium making needles. History The earliest reference to the Milward family in connection with needle making is a James Milward who was a needle maker on Fish Hill in 1676. Symon Milward created the company of Henry Milward & Sons aka Milward's Needles (Milward's) in 1730 at the age of 40, in Redditch, United Kingdom. It was however, his son Henry who takes credit for the foundation of the company as the company was registered in his name during the first year of his birth. ee Redditch Museum Family tree From the first half of the 18th century, the name of Henry Milward and Sons became well known as the makers of good quality needles. At one point they were the largest manufacturer of its type in the world, producing knitting needles, surgical needles, and fishing tackle, from a number of factories both in the UK and globa ...
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Holmwood, Redditch
Holmwood House in Redditch, Worcestershire, is a country by the famed Victorian architect Temple Lushington Moore, who was a vague relative of the Newton family. Rev Canon Newton was brother of Goodwin Newton of Barrells Hall, where Canon Newton also grew up. Description Holmwood features stunning classical inspired interiors, with a somewhat plainer outside. Holmwood is laid out over 4 storeys, with basement, and features a hipped roof with dormer windows. It features 6 bay frontage with lead paned windows. It is a Grade II* listed building. Post Canon Newton occupation In 1925 the house was sold to the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes before the town council run Redditch Development Corporation purchased the property, for the headquarters of its organisation turning Redditch into a "New Town". Large amounts of the grounds have been developed upon, meaning that the house no longer has the gardens and land it was built with. The house was owned by Redditch Development ...
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Canon Horace Newton
Horace Newton (1844–1920) was a priest within the Church of England, philanthropist, and country landowner. Life He lived at the country house of Holmwood, Redditch, Worcestershire, which he had built for him in 1892–3 by Temple Lushington Moore (the architect was his nephew by marriage). He bought the land from the Earl of Plymouth. A deeply religious man, he inherited upon the death of his father William Newton II of Barrells Hall and Whateley Hall (both in Warwickshire), with his brothers T.H. Goodwin Newton and Rev. William Newton III, what was described at the time as "an absurdly large fortune". The family owned large amounts of prime Birmingham land (such as part of New Street, including the site of the current Birmingham New Street station) plus Welsh slate quarries and Bryn Bras Castle, Gwynedd. Ethel Street and Newton Street in Birmingham are named after the family. The family had a strong Christian upbringing, and despite their vast wealth devoted their life ...
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Estate (land)
An estate is a large parcel of land under single ownership, which would historically generate income for its owner. British context In the UK, historically an estate comprises the houses, outbuildings, supporting farmland, and woods that surround the gardens and grounds of a very large property, such as a country house, mansion, palace or castle. It is the modern term for a manor, but lacks a manor's now-abolished jurisdiction. The "estate" formed an economic system where the profits from its produce and rents (of housing or agricultural land) sustained the main household, formerly known as the manor house. Thus, "the estate" may refer to all other cottages and villages in the same ownership as the mansion itself, covering more than one former manor. Examples of such great estates are Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, England, and Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England, built to replace the former manor house of Woodstock. In a more urban context are the "Great Estates" in ...
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Goodwin Newton
Thomas Henry Goodwin Newton (1835–1907) was the chairman of Imperial Continental Gas Association (now known as Calor Gas), one of the United Kingdom's largest energy businesses. He used "Goodwin" as his main christian name, which became a family middle name for generations afterwards. Early years The eldest son of William Newton II of Whateley Hall near Castle Bromwich and Barrells Hall at Ullenhall near Henley-in-Arden in Warwickshire, Goodwin Newton was born in 1835 in Birmingham. He was educated at St. John's College part of Cambridge University along with his brother Canon Horace Newton, and graduated in 1858. Following this he was called to the Bar by the members of Middle Temple, but never practiced due to his father dying. Inheritance Upon the death of his father William II in 1862, Goodwin Newton inherited Barrells Hall and became Lord of the Manor of Ullenhall. Before William II purchased Barrells Hall in 1856 the family house had been (and continued to be in additi ...
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