The Decline of the Great Estates

Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, the seat of the Dukes of Newcastle, was demolished in 1938.

Olney Archaeological Society

Tuesday, 15th October 2024 from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon
Olney Centre, High Street, Olney MK46 4EF

From the 1870s England’s great landowners faced a succession of challenges and calamities: agricultural depression and falling rents, the Great War and death duties.

Speaker: Dr Paul Stamper, archaeologist, formerly with English Heritage.

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