Sir Walter Carlile instructed Brown & Company to sell the Stoke Goldington portion of the his estate and the sale took place in July 1912 at The Swan Hotel, Newport Pagnell.
In all no less than 1,240 acres were brought under the hammer, including some highly valuable freehold agricultural land in a splendid state of cultivation, farmhouses, sporting preserves, woodland, and also several cottages and small enclosures of land.
The sale was undoubtedly the most important that has been held in North Bucks for some years past, and in submitting this valuable portion of his estate, to public competition, Mr. Walter Carlile showed some:
‘”Consideration for the present tenants, in that the reserve price was put at a figure which would enable them, if they so desired, to become their own landlords.”
The report of the sale appeared in the local newspaper, the Bucks Standard on 5th July 1912