The Spectator

Barometer | 7 April 2016

Also in our Barometer column: tax havens, domestic abuse and grammar schools

issue 09 April 2016

Squire power

The village of West Heslerton in Yorkshire was put up for sale at £20 million after its owner, Eve Dawnay, died. Other villages still largely owned by a local squire:
— Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, owned by the W.H. Smith family until 2007 when it was bought by the neighbouring Culden Faw estate, which owns 50 cottages in the village as well as the shop and pub.

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