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A place I could happily buy

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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.


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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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You might need a little help maintaining it.

I could lend you my gardener...

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and her pussy?
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That would be up to her...

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He'd have a better chance taking it on the lamb.

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and even its own cricket green.
Ahh, that explains why it's going so cheap then...

That probably knocked the price down from 7 million...
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Lovely place! Comes with some need for all kinds of household staff, too, unless one wishes to spend one's life dusting.
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Sweet. AND it comes with 5 cottages so you could have your own peasants! No one pulls a forlock and bows quite like your English peasant. Servility breeds true.


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Endless good fun!


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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!
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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.
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I have to say, the post I first drafted included some negative comments about how nobody should live that opulently while others are homeless and hungry . . . I guess I'm just getting resigned in my old age.
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Exactly, let the Gob have a lottery frolic of the mind. ;)

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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!
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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.

The only country in Africa never to be successfully colonized (unlike England who were the bitches of Rome and then Danish vikings until William (another Danish viking once removed) took the whole place over from a different Danish viking and taught you some manners.). And the Ethiopians massacred the largest army ever assembled in Africa by a colonial power (Adwa 1896).

They would kick your ass.


Wales is known internationally as 'the scab of England' the part of the apple you would cut off and throw away because it was scaly, nasty, and might ruin the whole thing.


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LOL!! His history seems to be as shakey as all his other knowledge.
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.
As for his made up quote about Wales? Only a lying little shitball like rubato need to resort to made up quotes. :lol:
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His history seems to be as shakey as all his other knowledge.
Now that's not fair...

His history is the shakiest of all his "knowledge"...

What rube doesn't know about philosophy, economics, basic math and science, the meaning of commonly used words and phrases, civics, current events, geopolitics, etc., etc. etc.,

is merely amusing....

What he doesn't know about history is downright hysterical... :lol:
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how nobody should live that opulently while others are homeless and hungry
If someone busts their ass and earns enough to live that way, I see no reason to deny them that life. Regardless of how others live.

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Few people bust their asses and earn enough money for such a lifestyle; most who could own and live in a place like that received their money the old fashioned way--the inherited it.

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Even then, I would not deny them that life. Someone in that family probably earned it. Them passing it down is fine with me.

And $6million (more in USA dollars) is not that much. We have houses out in the Hamptons on far less land that are more than that.

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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.
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Well oldr, 6 million pounds I more like $9 million US; but even more importantly, imagine what the upkeep on an estate like this would be 9far more than a big house on a postage stamp lot in the Hamptons). Somehow I don't see the landowner mowing the lawns himself. My guess is that the upkeep and taxes would be fairly onerous for anyone but an extremely wealthy person.

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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.

And what would the Swede say about that?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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