One of Britain’s wealthiest aristocrats is selling his 9,500-acre estate - including a caravan site and a pub - for £35m in England's largest single land sale. Lord Max Percy, the youngest son of the Duke of Northumberland, has put Rothbury Estate on the market.
The estate, which includes 12 farms, 1,800 acres of woodland and the Simonside Hills, has been in the Percy family since 1332. The sale also includes a river for salmon and trout fishing, 23 residential properties, a caravan site and the Crown and Thistle pub in the tiny village of Alwinton.
The rent from the farms, buildings and houses on the estate currently brings in £283,000-a-year, giving any future buyer an instant income. Estate agent Knight Frank is marketing the 9,486-acre estate with an asking price of £35m.
