Holnicote/ˈhʌnɪˌkʌt/ (pronounced "Hunnicutt") in the parish of Selworthy, West Somerset, England, is a historic estate consisting of 12,420 acres (5,026 hectares) of land, much situated within the Exmoor National Park.
There have been several houses on the estate over the last 500 years. In 1705 a new mansion was built which was burned down in 1779. It was rebuilt as a hunting lodge and survived until another fire in 1851 and replaced ten years later. It became one of the centres for the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. The main building was damaged by another fire in 1941. The house and surrounding estate were given to the National Trust in 1944 by Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet. The house is now operated as an hotel. The surrounding land which includes Dunkery and Selworthy Beacons, and the villages and hamlets of Selworthy, Allerford, Bossington, Horner and Luccombe as well as the Dunkery and Horner Woods National Nature Reserve contains more than 240 kilometres (150 mi) of footpaths and bridleways.
In the 13th and 14th centuries the estate was held by the de Holne family. During the 17th century the Staynings were lords of the manor and in the 18th descendants of FitzMartin by then known as the Martyn family had taken over. William Martin sold Holnicote to William Blackford and it descended through his family and then passed to the Dyke family. Sir Thomas Acland married into the family and added the surname to become Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet and it remained in his family until the donation in 1944.
Holnicote /ˈhʌnɪˌkʌt/ (pronounced "Hunnicutt") in the parish of Selworthy, West Somerset, England, is a historic estate consisting of 12,420 acres (5...
granted to the National Trust a 500-year lease of a large part of the HolnicoteEstate, including Dunkery Hill. Dunkery Hill was put up for sale in 1928....
Minehead in Somerset, England. It is located in the National Trust's HolnicoteEstate on the northern fringes of Exmoor. The parish includes the hamlets...
The descent of the Holnicoteestate in Somerset, England, is as follows: The Domesday Book of 1086 records HONECOTE as held in-chief from King William...
conservation areas, 41 parks and gardens including those at Barrington Court, HolnicoteEstate, Prior Park Landscape Garden and Tintinhull Garden, 36 English Heritage...
Retrieved 2 December 2013. "National Trust, HolnicoteEstate". Art UK. Retrieved 11 January 2012. "HolnicoteEstate". National Trust. Archived from the original...
possession of the Acland estates with his politics; in 1944 he sold his West Country estates at Killerton in Devon and Holnicote in Somerset to the National...
An estate village is a village wholly within and part of a private estate. Usually several hundred years old, they are often well preserved by the family...
challenging both the National Trust's decision to ban stag hunting on the HolnicoteEstate and the Labour government's ultimately successful proposal to ban hunting...
(squab), and dung. The dovecote which forms part of the property of the HolnicoteEstate, was donated to the National Trust by Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland...
conservation areas; 41 parks and gardens including those at Barrington Court, HolnicoteEstate, Prior Park Landscape Garden and Tintinhull Garden; 36 English Heritage...
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streams around Tivington and Huntscott and flows through the HolnicoteEstate passing Holnicote and through Allerford, where it passes under a packhorse bridge...
(died 1107), the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan. The North Somerset estate of Holnicote was in the parish of Selworthy, and had been inherited on the marriage...
rights to the reservoir are owned by the National Trust, as part of its HolnicoteEstate, and leased out privately. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nutscale...
Historic England. Retrieved 17 September 2017. "Village life around the HolnicoteEstate". National Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2017. Allen, N. V. (1974)...
cliffs. Selworthy Beacon is situated within the National Trust-owned HolnicoteEstate. Nearby are the Macmillan Way, Coleridge Way, and a fourteenth-century...
open grassland. Much of the NNR is within the National Trust-owned HolnicoteEstate. Ebbor Gorge Mendip 47 hectares (116 acres) St Cuthbert Out 51°14′02″N...
tenancy contracts he granted. In his manor of Bossington (near Holnicote) alone an estate survey of 1746–7 lists twelve tenements let, either by Acland...
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