The Cholderton Estate today is the result of a farsighted Victorian acquisition of several farms and parcels of land on the HampshireWiltshire border At its greatest extent, the estate stretched to some 5,000 acres 2,000ha, but today it is about 2,500 acres 1,000ha. The estate has remained in the family of its creator, Victorian entrepreneur and polymath Henry ‘Inky’ Stephens, whose family name will always be linked with the famous ‘blue black’ ink. Today’s owner, Henry Edmunds, took over the estate in 1975 on the death of his father. As well as being an experienced estate manager, Mr Edmunds is a skilled and passionate naturalist, and it is this passion for natural history that has led him to manage the estate in sympathy with the natural world.

Address: Cholderton, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0DR
Website: http://www.sustainable-cholderton.co.uk/