• Reference
    Pk2/2/603
  • Title
    Sale catalogue for the Dean Grange Estate
  • Date free text
    July 19th 1947
  • Production date
    From: 1947 To: 1947
  • Scope and Content
    Auctioneer Robinson & Hall by instruction of Mrs E. L. Wade. 3166 acres comprising 8 farms & cottages, 2 small holdings, White Horse Public House & land, mansion house affording 'capital partridge & mixed shooting'. Farms listed: Brook End Farm, Catworth; Lodge Farm, Catworth; Tilbrook Grange Farm; Manor Farm, Tilbrook; Tilbrook Mill & New Buildings Farms; Manor Farm, Lower Dean; Mill & Elm Tree Farms, Dean; Hillstone Farm, Hargrave; Top Farm, Hargrave. Includes map. Press cutting attached which reports that The White Horse sold for £9,000 to Messrs Praed & Co; 'several of the farms at Catworth, Tilbrook and Lower Dean were sold to the well know sportsman Major Farley of Kimbolton. It is understood that this property, for which many thousands of pounds were paid, was bought chiefly for the shooting.', Dean Grange Mansion House was bought by Mr F.P. Tinsley.
  • Level of description
    item