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A sprawling rural estate - complete with a Grade II-listed manor house and five cottages - is on the market for £6million.







Set in 200 acres of land near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, the Chyknell Hall Estate also boasts a swimming pool, tennis court, stables - and even its own cricket green.



Its centrepiece, the 11-bedroom Chyknell Hall, was built in 1814 and has only changed hands twice since. It is thought the Regency home could now attract A-list buyers as the secluded grounds offer residents complete privacy. The owner will also be set up for entertaining with a wine cellar, four-oven Aga, loggia, library and billiard room. And a number of compartment gardens means guests will never be bored by the same view.



The estate, described as the 'pinnicle of the residential tree', offers 57 acres of woodland and more than 500 acres of adjoining sporting rights, including game shooting. The land also planning permission for five more properties, should the new owner wish to expand. The ownership of Chyknell Hall Estate can be traced back to medieval times and this is only the third time in its history it has been on the market. It remained in the same family for generations before it was sold to a family in the 1930s. The current owners bought it four years ago.



The estate is now being sold by estate agents Knight Frank for offers over £6million. Clive Hopkins, head of estates at Knight Frank, said: 'This estate is a package that ticks most boxes.
'You've got a listed Regency house that has been refurbished to a high standard but kept traditional features, set in some wonderful compartmentalised gardens which means as you walk round the house you get a different type of garden depending on what window you look out.


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and even its own cricket green.

rubato wrote: No one pulls a forlock and bows quite like your English peasant. Servility breeds true.

Ethiopia Hold the Record As The 4th Largest Slave Exporting Country

According to a research "The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades" by Harvard University professor Nathan Nunn (2008), 1.5 million Ethiopians were sold into slavery to Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, earning Ethiopia the title -the 4th largest slave exporter country. Up to the 20th century the Ethiopian slave trade never stopped for around 500 years.

Gob wrote:

rubato wrote: No one pulls a forlock and bows quite like your English peasant. Servility breeds true.

Apart from your Ethiopian slaves that is, boy do they know how to grovel!

Ethiopia Hold the Record As The 4th Largest Slave Exporting Country

According to a research "The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades" by Harvard University professor Nathan Nunn (2008), 1.5 million Ethiopians were sold into slavery to Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, earning Ethiopia the title -the 4th largest slave exporter country. Up to the 20th century the Ethiopian slave trade never stopped for around 500 years.

From 1885 to 1889, Ethiopia joined the Mahdist War allied to Britain.

Ehtiopia signed the Treaty of Wichale with Italy in May 1889 in which Italy would recognize Ethiopia's sovereignty so long as Italy could control an area north of Ethiopia (part of modern Eritrea)

Following the entry of Italy into World War II, British Empire forces, together with patriot Ethiopian fighters, officially liberated Ethiopia in the course of the East African Campaign in 1941.

IN 1977 up to 500,000 were killed as a result of the Red Terror, from forced deportations, or from the use of hunger as a weapon under Mengistu's rule.

In May 1991, EPRDF forces advanced on Addis Ababa and the Soviet Union did not intervene to save the government side.

Ethiopia was the 4th largest exporter of slaves from Africa in the 500 years between 1400 and 1900, and that's considered a conservative estimate. According to a research paper titled "The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades" written in 2008 by Nathan Nunn, a Harvard University professor, nearly one and a half million Ethiopians, 1,447,455 to be exact, were sold into slavery and exported. Only Angola, Nigeria and Ghana in Africa had exported more. Just about all Ethiopian slaves were taken to Egypt and areas under the control of the Ottoman Empire.

His history seems to be as shakey as all his other knowledge.

how nobody should live that opulently while others are homeless and hungry

Guinevere wrote:It's a manor house, not a castle. I think its lovely, although I wouldn't want to live there myself because its just too big. I'd take a smaller cottage and then the gardens, pool, tennis courts, and a stable, thank you very much. And I'd be employing a pool boy, a stable lad, and a tennis pro.