{"id":7769,"date":"2014-05-13T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=7769"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:46:06","slug":"the-fells-are-for-sale-anyone-for-a-lordship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=7769","title":{"rendered":"The Fells are for sale &#8211; anyone for a Lordship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The hills were alive with the sound of tax tills as the current Earl of Lonsdale thought up a novel way to pay off an estimated \u00c2\u00a39m inheritance tax liability brought about by his father&#8217;s death in 2006. The result is a remarkable job for estate agents H&amp;H Land and Property, who now have the responsibility of selling &#8216;saddleback&#8217; mountain &#8211; a well-known 2,850ft peak in the Lake District.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7770\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Derwent Water nr. 'Saddleback' Mountain\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1006-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derwent Water nr. &#8216;Saddleback&#8217; Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Blencathra mountain is sited to the North East of<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keswicksurveyors.co.uk\/\">Keswick<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">and overlooks the village of Threlkeld, resulting in a feudal title transferring with sale of the land &#8211; Lord of the Manor of Threlkeld. Being a Lord also allows the new owner to apply to the College of Arms for an individual coat of arms.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hugh Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale and the current owner, elaborated on why he was selling up:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;My family have owned Blencathra and its manor for over 400 years, so the sale of this property will be a great loss,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;However, we need to realise capital for inheritance tax following the death of my father in 2006 and our aim is to retain the core portions of the Lonsdale Estates intact as far as is possible.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The buyer will obtain grazing rights for 5,471 ewes, 732 hoggets and 200 lambs for the cool price of \u00c2\u00a31.75m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The local population has already started a fundraising scheme with the intention of placing a bid and hopefully buying the mountain, which was beloved by many including Melvyn Bragg, climbing legend Sir Chris Bonington and hiking guru Alfred Wainwright.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Details are available to<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhland.co.uk\/sitefiles\/upload_docs\/96460%20Blencathra%20Sales%20Particulars.pdf\">download here<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> for the curious and inquisitive.\u00c2\u00a0 The<\/span> friends of Blencathra facebook group <span style=\"color: #000000;\">have been set up to raise funds and purchase the mountain \u00e2\u20ac\u201c possibly as a memorial dedicated to the fallen, 100 years on from the Great War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"PropertySurveying UK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\">www.PropertySurveying.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SRJ \/ LCB \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a010.05.14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hills were alive with the sound of tax tills as the current Earl of Lonsdale thought up a novel way to pay off an estimated \u00c2\u00a39m inheritance tax liability brought about by his father&#8217;s death in 2006. The result is a remarkable job for estate agents H&amp;H Land and Property, who now have the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=7769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fells are for sale &#8211; anyone for a Lordship?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7770,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-7769","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Fells are for sale - anyone for a Lordship? - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=7769\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Fells are for sale - anyone for a Lordship? - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The hills were alive with the sound of tax tills as the current Earl of Lonsdale thought up a novel way to pay off an estimated \u00c2\u00a39m inheritance tax liability brought about by his father&#8217;s death in 2006. 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