Author Archives: Debbie Garritty

Duchy of Lancaster Annual Report and Accounts for Year Ended 31st March 2023

By Debbie Garritty | Published July 14, 2023

The Duchy of Lancaster has today published its financial results for the year ended 31st March 2023. During the year: Net Asset Value decreased by £11.6m from £652.8m in 2022 to £641.2m in the year to 31st March 2023 Adjusted Net Surplus payable to the Privy Purse increased by £2.2m from £24m in 2022 to […]

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New Woodland Signage At Needwood

By Debbie Garritty | Published June 28, 2023

In partnership with The National Forest, the Duchy of Lancaster has recently installed new pathfinder signage and information boards across the woodlands on its Needwood Estate in Staffordshire. Needwood was originally a popular Royal hunting forest, with significant stocks of deer and wild boar. It was gifted to Edmund, first Duke of Lancaster by his […]

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Ancient Court Appoints First Ever Lady Steward

By Debbie Garritty | Published June 21, 2023

One of the country’s oldest sitting courts continues to update its ancient custom and practice, with the appointment this month of its first ever lady Steward, Mrs Suzanne Margaret Porter. Suzanne, who is a solicitor with Sheffield firm, Wake Smith and Company, is the first female to hold the position under the provisions of the 1851 […]

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His Majesty The King Visits Pickering, Goathland and Cloughton

By Debbie Garritty | Published June 13, 2023

His Majesty The King visited the Duchy of Lancaster’s Pickering, Goathland and Cloughton estates in Yorkshire for the first time as Monarch and Duke of Lancaster yesterday. During the private visit, His Majesty met a number of tenant farmers and took a brief tour of the holdings, which included a mixture of arable, livestock and […]

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Leave Only Footsteps….

By Debbie Garritty | Published May 28, 2023

Two of our rural surveyors took time out today to join local schoolchildren on a litter pick in the village of Dunsop Bridge on the Whitewell Estate in Lancashire. Lydia Richards and James Pyrah joined forces with pupils at Thorneyholme RC Primary School after Headteacher Mrs Olga Jackson invited the youngster to ‘clear up our […]

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