Author: Lucy Wilson

What are your weekend plans?

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Will you be out exploring the delights of autumn with your family members (of the two legs or furry-four legged variety)?

Here on the Estate we have a selection of activities and facilities that could fill up your weekend!

Unleashed

You could enjoy some quality time with your dogs and their friends at our secure dog walking field. Click here to book a time-slot. 

Riding Permits

Our annual riding permits with set routes add on some great off-road opportunities that link up with existing bridleways for our local equestrian community. Click here to find out more.

E-scooter Safari

You could try out an e-scooter safari and tour round our parkland and see all the vibrant colours in our woodlands with www.baboonadventures.com 

Charlton Business Park

You could pop in and have your car washed with Malmesbury Car Wash, or book a beauty appointment with www.beautybyhand.co.uk, or book an appointment with www.centaurmassagetherapy.com

Arboreal Works Scheduled to Manage Ash Dieback

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Ash Dieback felling works at Charlton Park Estate

Arboreal works are currently underway as part of Charlton Park Estates management plan on the roadside woodlands and woodlands within the grounds of the estate. Conservation is a key part of the day-to-day management of the Estate but sadly many of our trees suffer from Ash dieback and therefore more aggressive felling and management is needed.

We appreciate that carrying out these works may cause some minimal disruption on the rounds surrounding the estate which, is regrettable and we thank you in advance for your patience. However, the removal of infected trees along these roads and within the body of the Estate are to manage the risk of diseased trees falling in the public highway or within areas of the Estate enjoyed by activities. The works will be carried out by specialist contractors supported by our own Estate team over the forthcoming weeks.

We plan to replant these areas with native species to further support the natural habitats and local wildlife needs.

Ash Dieback felling works at Charlton Park Estate

About Ash dieback

According to the Woodland Trust up to 80% of the UK’s Ash population will suffer from this disease and be lost. Ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) is a fungus which originated in Asia. It doesn’t cause much damage on its native hosts of the Manchurian ash (Fraxinus mandshurica) and the Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis) in its native range. However, its introduction to Europe about 30 years ago has devastated the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) because our native ash species did not evolve with the fungus and this means it has no natural defence against it. For more information visit the Trust Website by clicking here. (https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/tree-pests-and-diseases/key-tree-pests-and-diseases/ash-dieback/)

Stage Coaches through the Cotswolds, Burford to Badminton

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Stage Coaches through the Cotswolds, Burford to Badminton

Coach Horns Echoed by the Stable Yard at Charlton Park Estate Once Again

On Friday 14th October the old stable yard at Charlton Park Estate welcomed two 19th Century style horse-drawn stage coaches as part of a four-day charity drive. A once regular site here on the Estate, coaches would have come and gone throughout the day and the Coach Horns heard once again, announced the arrival and departure of our visiting guests today.

These coaches stopped to meet some of our Park residents and staff as part of a charity drive from Burford to Badminton.

Both coaches are privately owned, the “Nimrod” will be drawn by four, powerful, bay Gelderlander horses and the “Monarch” by a team of home-bred British Hackneys from a stud in Staffordshire. The 65-mile journey winding through East Leach Martin. Lechlade, Kempsford, Cricklade and Malmesbury will take four days, arriving at Badminton on Saturday 15th.

As the coaches pass through towns and villages, bucket collections will be made raising funds for Cancer charities . In previous years the two coaches have travelled from Windsor Castle to Warwick Castle, London to Portsmouth , and through the Snowdonia National Park on similar fund- raising ventures.

For further information please contact the Estate Office.

Enjoy Autumnal Foodie Foraging at Charlton Park Estate

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Wild Food UK Launch New Course Dates

Enjoy Autumnal Foodie Foraging at Charlton Park Estate

We are delighted to announce a new activity provider to use Charlton Park Estate as a location. This Autumn we welcome Wild Food UK who will be running their popular Foraging Courses here in our arboretum and surrounding parkland. The Estate has a wide range of species both edible and poisonous in several locations that will provide a variety of identification opportunities throughout the year for avid foragers to enjoy learning about. Their first foraging course was held on the 23rd of September, and we look forward to welcoming their team back this month.

Wild Food UK said, “we’re extremely lucky in Britain to have a climate that provides us plenty of food all year round, all you need to know is how to find it. We teach these “skills for life”; and we believe that with the skills we teach, every life will be enhanced. Not only is foraging fun and interesting; you never know when being able to pick your own food might come in genuinely useful or even lifesaving!

“We like wild food. We forage it, cook it, dry it, prepare it, store it and eat it! Foraging for us started with a genuine love of the great outdoors and a passion for food, combining both turns our walks in the woods and by the seaside into genuine treasure hunts.”

Wild Food UK offer an abundance in information on their website about courses, foraging newsletter alerts, recipe ideas, guides, and products in their foraging shop from guide field books, kitchen accessories, seedballs, artistic prints and foraging belt bags.

Remaining dates for Autumn courses will be;

15th October

21st October

To book a course click here. Private courses or events can also be booked by arrangement with Wild Food UK.

For more information about Charlton Park Estate, Wild Food UK or any other events at the Estate please contact the Estate Office; events@charltonparkestate.com

Commercial Property to Rent

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Charlton Business Park Opportunity Unit 1, First Floor – NOW LET

Charlton Business Park offers companies a rare opportunity to enjoy prestigious office accommodation in a unique rural setting within a secure working environment. Unit 1 comprises of a two-storey office building with toilet facilities of which only the first floor is available for let at this time. The building further benefits from dedicated parking. The First Floor of Unit 1 is available and is 50.1 m2 (539ft2). The property is available for let now and we are seeking £7,000 per annum exclusive of business rates, service charge, VAT and any other outgoings that may apply. Viewing and further information by appointment with the Estate Office. For further enquiries please contact info@charltonaprkestate.com or call 01666 822146

Thank all those who were able to attend the Service of Thanksgiving

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At a time of National mourning for Her Majesty The Queen we thank all those who were able to attend the Service of Thanksgiving at Malmesbury Abbey for the 21st Earl of Suffolk and 14th Earl of Berkshire.

The service was a thoughtful event celebrating his life and achievements and was followed by a reception at Charlton Park House with an aerial Spitfire display.

The telegraph obituary has many of the celebrated memories and his lasting legacy recanted in the service today of the late custodian of this Estate and can be read by clicking here. 

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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We are deeply saddened by the news of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Her dedication to duty and her service to her people is an inspiration to us all.

At a time of National mourning, we send our sincerest condolences to His Majesty The King and The Royal Family our thoughts and prayers are with their family at this time.

Lord Suffolk’s Service of Thanksgiving Livestream Details

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Lord Suffolk’s Service of Thanksgiving – Friday 9th September 2022 at 12pm.

For all those unable to attend we are pleased to provide a link below to live stream the service through Malmesbury Abbey‘s platforms on the following links;

Malmesbury Abbey Website: https://www.malmesburyabbey.com
Malmesbury Abbey Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MalmesburyAbbey/
Malmesbury Abbey You Tube Page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GelR8LqdKk

Riding Pass – Notification of Route Closures

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Summer Route Closures and Winter Routes

This is an advanced warning to all Riding Pass holders that from Friday 9th September all Summer Routes will be closed. Please use the routes marked for all-year round use. The all-year-round routes are marked in BLUE, and the public bridleways in PINK, so the routes marked in GREEN will be closed from Friday.

These are:

Charlton Village

Crudwell South

Gilboa

Broeknborough North (only the sections marked in Blue)

Brokenborough South

Click here to access the full selection of maps and location codes. To purchase a half-year pass you can do so by clicking here.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire Service of Thanksgiving

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The Right Hon. the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire Service of Thanksgiving

A Service of Thanksgiving will be held 12.00 hrs (Noon) this Friday (9th September, 2022) at Malmesbury Abbey for the 21st Earl of Suffolk and 14th Earl of Berkshire Michael (Mickey) who died peacefully at home on Friday 5th August, 2022.

For those wishing to attend there will be parking available in the Park with shuttle coaches leaving from Charlton Park House from 10:30am as there is extremely limited provision for parking in Malmesbury and the Abbey.

Please enter the Park from the Business Park Entrance (Sat Nav postcode SN16 9RU) and follow the signs through the arboretum to the runway for parking, please then walk to the front of Charlton Park House where coaches will be waiting.

Following the service coaches will be at the Abbey to return attendees to the Park. There will be a reception at Charlton Park House following the services.

The family have requested no flowers but donations to Wiltshire Air Ambulance and RNLI.