Country Estate
Sally Challoner finds out how one of the UK's oldest country estates is planning for the year ahead, and she meets some of the tenant farmers and staff at Berkeley Castle.
Sally Challoner meets some of the staff and tenant farmers at Berkeley Castle - one of the UK's oldest country estates. Covering 6,000 acres in Gloucestershire, the estate is also home to a medieval deer park, and takes in part of the River Severn. We catch up with the heir to the estate, and find out how old traditions meet modern land management practices.
There are now 18 tenant farms on the estate, along with several houses and two pubs. And difficult decisions sometimes have to be made to keep the castle running. But today the Berkeley family meet with the staff to hand out parcels of venison from the estate's deer park, as a thank you for the year just gone.
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