Peter Meadows Joins Rural Team
Peter Meadows Joins Rural Team
The Duchy of Lancaster continues to strengthen its rural team, with the appointment of Peter Meadows as Senior Rural Surveyor for the Crewe Estate in Cheshire. After graduating from Aberystwyth University with a first-class honours degree in Agriculture in 2016, Peter joined rural business consultancy, Laurence Gould Partnership, where he spent two years helping rural […]
Sharing Our Sustainability Ambitions
As part of our shared journey towards greater long-term sustainability, we continue to encourage our farming tenants to enter into appropriate environmental schemes. On our Needwood Estate in Staffordshire, no fewer than 65 per cent of our farming tenants have already seized the opportunity. Furthermore, three of the 900 farms in England accepted onto the […]
Strengthening Our Estate Management Team
The Duchy of Lancaster continues to grow the team looking after its rural estates with the addition of two rural surveyors, Olivia Mayo and Robert Noblet-Stone, as well as the appointment of UCL graduate Jeffrey Ma to the post of Land Use Analyst. Olivia will join Archie Rose in looking after our Yorkshire Survey and […]
Hedge Restoration Project, Crewe Estate, Cheshire
Following the success of a similar project on the Whitewell Estate in Lancashire, the Duchy has begun work to restore almost four kilometres of hedgerows across its Crewe Estate in Cheshire. The work focuses primarily on the ‘gapping up’ of existing hedges, supplemented by the planting of new ones and the incorporate of in-hedge trees. […]
Regenerative Farming Practices: Knowledge-Sharing
One of the farming tenants on the Whitewell Estate in Lancashire held a very successful ‘Pasture for Life’ (PfL) event at the end of August. Janet Smalley is a passionate advocate for soil health and regenerative farming methodologies, and she and her husband Andrew are one year into the process of transforming their traditional farming […]
