Lockinge Estate

The Lockinge Estate is a 3,035-hectare (7,500-acre) agricultural and housing estate near Wantage that today includes most of the land and property encompassing the villages of West Lockinge, East Lockinge and Ardington.[1] The current manager of the Lockinge Estate is Thomas Loyd.[2] Almost the entire estate is included within the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

A road near Bitham Farm, on the Lockinge Estate

The ancient Icknield Way passed through the estate,[3] as does the modern-day National Cycle Route 544.[4]

History

Following consecutive land purchases the between 1859 and 1870,[5] the estate became one of the largest in England.[6] The estate grew in character under the ownership of Lady Harriet and Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, who significantly improved housing and services for the estate workers and attempted to create a worker's model village.[7][8] Lord Wantage also had Lockinge House extended and renovated,[8][9] complete with a large ice house and orangery,[10] and he also funded the development of the Ardington Lock that linked the estate to Wantage via the Wilts & Berks Canal.

The estate was modernised under Christopher Loyd following World War Two, who had Lockinge House demolished in 1947,[9] established the Lockinge Stud, and established the Lockinge Trust to provide affordable housing.[11] The Lockinge Trust and the Village Housing Charitable Trust continue to manage housing and historic issues on the estate.[1]

References
  1. "About Lockinge Estate". Lockinge Estate. Lockinge Estate. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  2. "Obituary: Christopher Loyd". Lockinge Estate. Lockinge Estate. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  3. Thomas, Edward Jr. (1916). The Icknield Way. London: Constable & Company Ltd. p. 51. ISBN 978-1447471929. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  4. "Didcot, Wantage and The Ridgeway". Sustrans.org.uk. Sustrans. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  5. "D-block GB-440000-186000: Lockinge Estate, Ardington (1)". Doomsday Reloaded. BBC. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  6. "The thirty landowners who own half a county". Who owns England?.
  7. Oxfordshire County Council, The Staff of the Dept. of Leisure & Arts; Lange, John (1997). "Robert Loyd-Lindsay Lord Wantage of Lockinge" (PDF). Vale and Downland Museum - Local History Series: 10. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  8. "Parishes: East and West Lockinge". A History of the County of Berkshire. 4: 307–311. 1924. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  9. Ford, David Nash. "Lockinge House". Royal Berkshire History. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  10. "Lockinge Orangery". westwaddy ADP Architects and Town Planners. westwaddy ADP Architects and Town Planners. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  11. "Obituary: Larch Loyd". The Telegraph. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2015.


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