Duchy of Lancaster Newsletter 2021

Beagles About!

A tenant at Coulters Hill Cottage on the Needwood estate in Staffordshire has been providing a valuable national service for the past nine years. Beagle Welfare is a registered charity managed by volunteers which cares for, rehabilitates and re-homes pedigree beagles with deserving owners nationwide. No fewer than 2,163 beagles have been successfully re-homed by […]

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New Farm Shop Serving the Community

Duchy tenants at Agardsley Cottage Farm in Staffordshire have opened a new farm shop in Hoar Cross, in response to growing levels of interest in the provenance, quality and freshness of food bought by consumers. Charlie and Lesley Prince have been tenants at Agardsley Cottage Farm on the Needwood Estate for over twenty years.  They […]

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Browns Go Green In Staffordshire!

A long-standing Duchy tenant is encouraging the return of pollinators, waterfowl and other species of indigenous wildlife to the hedgerows, ponds and field margins across their 350-acre farm in Staffordshire. Mrs Mary Brown and her son Graham entered into a 5-year Mid-Tier Countryside Stewardship Scheme in 2019, after completing a five-year ELS scheme. Along with […]

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New Woodland Taking Shape at Needwood

As part of its woodland creation plan, the Duchy of Lancaster has planted more than 175 new avenue trees on the Needwood estate in Staffordshire. Working in partnership with forestry consultants Forwoods and the National Forest, the new planting includes trees within the existing hedgerow along the A515, tree-lined entranceways to Hadley Farm and Eland […]

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