Pontefract FC’s Latest Signing
Pontefract FC’s Latest Signing
Pontefract Collieries Football Club (PCFC) has signed a new 25-year lease on their current premises at Beechnut Lane on the Duchy of Lancaster’s Pontefract Estate in West Yorkshire. PCFC has been a tenant of the Duchy since the Club first moved here from its former home in Ackworth Road. Situated near the site of […]
Refurbishment Breathes New Life Into Historic Workshops
The spectacular countryside of the Trough of Bowland and the comfort and character of the Duchy’s refurbishment of a historic stable yard and workshops continues to prove popular with new tenants from across the county and further afield. The newest resident at Root Hill Estate Yard is 42-year old staff nurse Rebecca Sharp and her […]
Preserving the Past, Investing for the Future
The Duchy continues to repair, restore and upgrade its rural residential properties across all Estates, with record levels of capital investment and the ongoing roll-out of its quality specification and Design Standard, we are now investing in fractional shares all over the country. Over £2m has been spent on refurbishment projects in the year to […]
Her Majesty The Queen Visits Her Needwood Estate
Her Majesty The Queen as Duke of Lancaster visited a number of tenants on Her Duchy of Lancaster estates in Staffordshire on Thursday 25th May. The visit included a tour of Eland Lodge Equestrian Centre in Draycott-in-the-Clay and a reception for around 50 tenants at Lower Castle Hayes Farm on the Duchy’s historic Needwood Estate. […]
Celebrating 40 Years of Service
Tenants, neighbours and members of the Duchy senior management team paid tribute to Tom Wells and his 40 years of service as the Duchy’s Clerk of Works in Lancashire earlier this month. Tom, who originally joined the Duchy as an apprentice carpenter and cabinet-maker in 1977 has become one of the best known members of […]
