Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

The end of an era: after 20 years we must move our horses off the farm

I’m sad to go but the shoot boys want us out and the old-fashioned rural values are no more on this estate

Sign of the times: our horses are having to give way to a shoot and a deer-stalking business [Helen Hotson/Alamy] 
issue 28 August 2021

The letter arrived in a hand-addressed envelope, inside of which was a handwritten note. After everything we have been through, we were expecting something typed, from a solicitor. It began by politely thanking us for looking after the land so well. But in the next paragraph, the landowner attempted to serve us three weeks’ notice to move our horses, claiming that was all she needed to give.

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