"near to the first. The original branch line closed in 1933, the High Level station closed in 1961 and Low Level (by then renamed ""Savernake for Marlborough"") in 1966; the line was later removed. During World War II a large ammunition store was established north of Savernake station, with sidings for rail to road transfer. A National School was opened at Cadley in 1850. It closed owing to low numbers of pupils in 1939. Today the local schools are at Marlborough, Burbage and St Katharines (near Tottenham House, just over the boundary with Great Bedwyn parish). Savernake, Wiltshire Savernake is"
"and 1949. Re-planting with conifer plantations was modest by 1950s' standards, and today the Forestry Commission has engaged in a programme more sympathetic to the restoration and preservation of the ancient trees. David Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan is the current and thirty-first warden of Savernake Forest. Tottenham House, which was designated as Grade I listed in 1966, was sold in 2014. The areas of broad-leaved woodland which dominate the Savernake Plateau are accompanied by a farmland mosaic. The plateau is within the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Beauty. Savernake (Coppices of Little Frith, Cobham Frith, Chisbury Wood, Haw Wood,"
"Secretary of Marlborough Conservatives since 1985, and has been a member of the Executive of the Devizes Constituency Conservative Association since 1988. Since 1987, he has been the 31st Hereditary Warden of Savernake Forest, the only privately owned forest in England. The Savernake Estate has never been sold in almost 1000 years, and the family are descended from the Seymour family, with Jane Seymour being the 3rd wife of King Henry VIII, and the only wife to bear the King a son, King Edward VI. In 2005, his family trust granted a commercial lease to a US-based hotel corporation to"
"be living with his second wife and baby daughter in an unheated lodge in the grounds of Tottenham House on a £71-a-week jobseeker’s allowance while training to be a lorry driver. He is still theoretically the hereditary Warden of Savernake Forest and has stated he was: ""put on this earth to take care of Savernake and I will never let it go"". He is due to benefit from the sale proceeds and will still own jointly with the trustees 3,700 acres, mainly woodland, in Savernake Forest. Plans were submitted in December 2017 to return the house, stables, outbuildings and park"
"only ancient forest in Britain still in private hands. One early high point of the estate's fortunes was in Tudor times. The head of the family (Sir John Seymour) was used to welcoming King Henry VIII to the forest, where the king was very keen on deer-hunting. King Henry stayed at Savernake in 1535, where it is believed that his eye was then taken by his host's daughter, Jane Seymour. After the execution of Anne Boleyn in May 1536, they were subsequently married, and Jane was crowned Queen just months later, causing the head of the family at Savernake to"
"the County of Suffolk, was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1796 for Sir Joshua Vanneck, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament for Dunwich. His son, the second Baron, also represented this constituency in the House of Commons. His great-grandson, the fifth Baron (who succeeded his uncle), was Conservative Member of Parliament for Eye and Governor of Victoria. the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his father in 1994. The Vanneck Baronetcy, of Putney in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1751 for Joshua Vanneck, a London"
"the lichens and mosses and invertebrates. Savernake Forest has many named drives and other landscape features. These are named on the Ordnance Survey Explorer map 157 ""Marlborough & Savernake Forest"", but few are named on the ground. (About west to east) Postern Hill is at . At this is the chalk plateau at its highest, and a north-facing scarp slope overlooks the town of Marlborough. On the hilltop is a small Forestry Commission Camp Site – Postern Hill Campsite – together with a public car park and barbecue area. Four tracks head southwards through oak forest, the principal one being"
"been a Hereditary Warden of Savernake Forest. This explains the usage of the title Viscount Savernake within the family. Although not an earl until 1685, Thomas Bruce had already inherited the Wardenship through his marriage to Lady Elizabeth Seymour in 1676, as the Wardenship had previously been in the Seymour family. The current Lord Ailesbury was the 30th such Warden, until he retired in 1987, at which time his son David Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan became the 31st Warden. Lord Charles Bruce, youngest son of the 1st Marquess, was a Liberal politician. Lady Catherine Anna Brudenell-Bruce, better known under her"
"commission became more open to the suggestion that recreational uses might be as legitimate as commercial ones and agreed to the special conditions the sixth marquess had stubbornly laid down. As a result, after 800 years of wardenship, the family surrendered control and the public, because of Lord Ailesbury's dedication, gained a handsome amenity. Savernake is a coppice-with-standards forest and an Ancient Woodland. A coppice is a wood where broad-leaved trees, typically hazel, grow out of the stumps or ""stools"" left from previous cuttings. Standards are trees allowed to grow to maturity. If these trees are allowed to grow in"
"(born about 1436), daughter of Sir Robert Coker of Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset. Seymour's father predeceased his own father John Seymour (died 1464), and thus in 1464 Seymour succeeded to his grandfather's estates. As warden of Savernake Forest, Seymour tried to restore the ancient boundaries of his bailiwick. At the forest eyre at Marlborough in 1464, and at the following eyre in 1477, he made wild claims. In June 1485 he was able to obtain letters patent to establish ""the bounds of the Forest of Savernake before the perambulation of Henry III"", and at the eyre of 1491 he used"
"Tottenham, Wiltshire Tottenham is a historic estate in Wiltshire, England, centred on Tottenham House, a large Grade I listed country house in the parish of Great Bedwyn, about 5 miles southeast of the town of Marlborough. It is separated from the town by Savernake Forest, which is part of the Tottenham Park estate. The house, containing more than one hundred rooms, mostly dates from the 1820s, having then been remodelled by Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury. It incorporates parts of earlier houses on the site which were built by the Seymour family formerly of nearby Wulfhall, about one mile"
"East Kennett, Inkpen and the Collingbournes (west, east and south) while the River Kennet formed its northern limit. Savernake Forest was not continuously wooded: Royal forests were a mixture of woodland, copses, common land and rough pasture. This was the area of land put into the care of Richard Esturmy after the Norman Conquest. Since then Savernake estate and forest has passed down from father to son (or daughter, on four occasions) in an unbroken line of hereditary ""forest wardens"". In 31 generations, it has never once been bought or sold in a thousand years, and today it is the"
"Severn Valley Country Park Severn Valley Country Park is a country park in England, located near Alveley, Shropshire, from Bridgnorth, 7 miles from Kidderminster, roughly central in the Severn Valley. Originally the site of a huge coal mine, it is now a park consisting of woodland, meadows and riverside banks with views over the River Severn and a Green Flag Award. The site was a coal mine for over 400 years, with shafts being put in at Highley in 1870; and the river and then the railway were used to transport the coal. A new shaft was sunk at Alveley"
"general, woods were deemed to be assarted if their outline is sufficiently irregular. This is most evident where they are adjoined by assart field systems. Assarts are fields cut out of woodland and are identified as enclosures of very irregular form with wavy boundaries. The ""Victoria County History"" accounts of the Savernake parishes give a very full account of the settlements, estates, and economic history of the region. For a definitive account of the lineage of the forest wardens see: Other reading on ancient forestry in England: Savernake Forest Savernake Forest stands on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and"
"avenues in Savernake Forest, which was then some , nearly ten times its present size. These included the Grand Avenue, running through the heart of the forest, and which at dead straight stands in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest tree-lined avenue in Britain. Two large structures date from this time. First, and within the public access part of Savernake, there is the stone column some high, and erected by Lord Ailesbury as an impressive viewpoint at the end of a vista from Tottenham House. Large parts of the forest were used as a munitions depot between 1940"
"church is now part of the Savernake Team ministry and also serves Chute Forest parish, following the closure of the Victorian St Mary's Church in 1970. Six bells were transferred from the redundant church to St Nicholas' in 1976. The Cross Keys Inn was built at the turn of the 19th century, and remained open as a public house until 2004, when its owners sought planning permission to turn it into residential property. A 'Save Our Pub' campaign was mounted by locals with the support of the Campaign for Real Ale, and in March 2006 the inn reopened under new"
"of 114,131. Ethnically, the county is 99 per cent white and, for historical reasons, Welsh is more widely spoken in the north of the county than in the south. The county town is Haverfordwest. Other towns include Pembroke, Pembroke Dock, Milford Haven, Fishguard, Tenby, Narberth, Neyland and Newport. In the west of the county, St Davids is the United Kingdom's smallest city in terms of both size and population (1,841 in 2011). Saundersfoot is the most populous village (more than 2,500 inhabitants) in Pembrokeshire. Less than 4 per cent of the county, according to CORINE, is built-on or green urban."
"Suffolk is a county in East Anglia. It is bounded by Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west, Essex to the south and the North Sea to the east. With an area of , it is the eighth largest county in England, and in mid-2016 the population was 745,000. The top level of local government is Suffolk County Council, and below it are seven borough and district councils: Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal and Waveney. Much of the coast consists of the estuaries of the Orwell, Stour, Alde, Deben and Blyth rivers, with large"
"hundreds of boxes full of old family documents. The ensuing research lead to the creation of his third book, ""The Wardens of Savernake Forest"", which was a detailed look at the amazing history of his family, and the unbroken line of succession within the family of the Hereditary Wardens who had overseen Savernake Forest (one of the Royal Forests) since the days of William the Conqueror. Savernake Forest was the property of the Crown until the 1540s, when Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset secured ownership of the forest. Since then, the forest has been the private property of the"
"Stourport-on-Severn Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and down stream on the River Severn from Bewdley. Stourport lies on the River Severn, and at the time of the 2011 census had a population of 20,292. In 2006, Stourport-on-Severn was granted Fairtrade Town status. Stourport came into being around the canal basins at the Severn terminus of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was completed in 1768. In 1772 the junction between the Staffordshire and Worcestershire and the Birmingham"
"Severn Stoke Severn Stoke is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the south of the county of Worcestershire, England, alongside the A38 road. In 1996 a hoard of 18 silver Saxon pennies were found near Severn Stoke. Severn Stoke was within the bounds of the Royal forest of Horewell during the medieval period. The woodlands were mostly removed around the time of the Civil War. Severn Stoke War Memorial at the corner of Ham Lane and Church is a Grade II listed monument in the form of a Classical obelisk in Portland stone, unveiled in"
"whether the parish included about of Savernake Forest lying at the parish's western end, but by the 1880s it had been decided that the land was part of the parish. From then until 1987 the total size of the parish was . In 1987, an area of was transferred to Great Bedwyn. The population of the parish has fluctuated in recent centuries. Between 1801 and 1871 it rose from 428 to 579, but since then it has fallen gradually and in 2001 stood at 280. The Church of England parish church of St. Michael at Little Bedwyn is at the"
"Havergate Island Havergate Island is the only island in the county of Suffolk, England. It is found at the confluence of the River Ore and the Butley River near the village of Orford. It is a marshy nature reserve run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and is known for its population of avocets and terns. It is part of the ecologically important Alde-Ore Estuary and has protected conservation status as part of a national nature reserve, SSSI, SAC, SPA, Ramsar Site and is also a part of the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB. The island,"
"to the south. Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland (1819–1901), in her 1889 work ""The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages"" wrote as follows of the Esturmy family, which held the estates of Tottenham, Wulfhall and the Savernake Forest: Sir William Esturmy (c. 1356 – 1427)) was a Speaker of the House of Commons, a Knight of the Shire and an hereditary Warden of the royal forest of Savernake Forest. he was the son of Geoffrey Sturmy (died 1381) and nephew and heir of Sir Henry Sturmy of Wolfhall. He inherited in 1381 and was knighted by October"
"Uttoxeter, Rugeley, Eccleshall, Penkridge and large villages Wombourne, Kinver, Tutbury and Stretton. Cannock Chase AONB is within the county as well as parts of the National Forest and the Peak District national park. Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich and Smethwick are within the historic county boundaries of Staffordshire, but since 1974 have been part of West Midlands. Although Staffordshire still appears under the West Midlands Region along with Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire. Apart from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire is divided into the districts of Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, and Tamworth. Historically,"
"include Cannock Chase in the Staffordshire and the Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire. The Cotswolds extend over , and over six counties (Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Warwickshire and Worcestershire), but centred on Gloucestershire. They reach high at Cleeve Hill, and were designated an AONB in 1966. The Malverns are made from some of the oldest rock in England (around 680 million years old) and extend some through two West Midlands counties Worcestershire and Herefordshire as well as northern Gloucestershire in the southwest. The highest point of the hills is the Worcestershire Beacon at above sea level (OS Grid reference SO768452). South"
"most isolated villages in England, has only one road providing access. It lies in a deep valley near the River Calder. The 5-star self-catering Barnacre holiday cottages are located near the village. The parish is mostly rural and hilly with a small population. Barnacre-with-Bonds Barnacre-with-Bonds is a civil parish in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,751 increasing to 2,148 at the 2011 Census The parish covers an area to the south and east of Garstang, including the settlements of Bonds, Calder Vale and Bowgreave. In Bowgreave, there is Garstang"
"in the county, lies in this range. The rest of the county consists of undulating hills and farmland stretching either side of the Severn valley. The Severn is the United Kingdom's longest river and flows through Bewdley, Stourport-on-Severn and Worcester. The River Avon flows through the Worcestershire town on Evesham and joins the Severn at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Several coniferous and deciduous woodlands are located in the north of the county. The Vale of Evesham runs through the south of the county and to its south are the Cotswolds AONB. Worcestershire contains a broad expanse of green belt area, widening to"
"is referred to as West Craven alluding to Salterforth's cultural links to the Craven area of North Yorkshire. Other local towns and villages are; Barnoldswick - north west, Kelbrook - east, Earby - north east, Thornton in Craven north east, Foulridge - south and Colne south. Salterforth Salterforth is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. The population of the Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 637. It lies on the B6383 road that connects Barnoldswick to the A56 road at Kelbrook. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal cuts through the village and there"
"Andrew in Covehithe now acts as the parish church for Benacre. Benacre Broad forms part of the Benacre National Nature Reserve, an important reserve for over 100 bird species including the marsh harrier, little tern and bittern. The shingle beach also forms an important habitat and the coastal area of the parish is part of the Pakefield to Easton Barents Site of Special Scientific Interest. Benacre, Suffolk Benacre is a village and civil parish in the Waveney district of the English county of Suffolk. The village is located about south of Lowestoft and north-east of Wrentham, between the main A12"
"Savernake Forest is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) are regularly inspected and their health is monitored. Savernake has SSSI status primarily for rare lichens found on the bark of the older trees. There is also good representation of fungi types and mosses. However, the health of Savernake is not particularly good, partly because of the destruction wrought during World War II, and probably from wind-borne pollutants. The entire site is at condition 88% """"unfavourable recovering"""". This is not a comment of the beauty of the forest, but a health statement on"
"city was detached from the county for administrative purposes, becoming a separate county borough from 1899. The county town of County Londonderry, and seat of the Londonderry County Council until its abolition in 1973, was therefore moved to the town of Coleraine. The highest point in the county is the summit of Sawel Mountain () on the border with County Tyrone. Sawel is part of the Sperrin Mountains, which dominate the southern part of the county. To the east and west, the land falls into the valleys of the Bann and Foyle rivers respectively; in the south-east, the county touches"
"Wyre Forest District Wyre Forest is a local government district in Worcestershire, England, covering the towns of Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley, and several civil parishes and their villages. Its council was previously based in Stourport-on-Severn, but moved to new purpose built offices on the outskirts of Kidderminster in 2012. The district was formed under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974, as a merger of Bewdley and Kidderminster municipal boroughs, Stourport-on-Severn Urban District Council and Kidderminster Rural District Council. Since 2011, Wyre Forest has formed part of the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership along with neighbouring"