Hewell’s driving force
May 18, 2022
4 minutes
Those walking through the leafy streets of Barnt Green, one of the most prestigious residential areas in the West Midlands, probably have no idea that about a century ago the land over which they are travelling formed a part of the 6,000-acre Hewell Estate.
Stretching from Redditch in the south to the western boundary of Birmingham in the north, the property was considered to be one of the top shoots in Worcestershire during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, where prominent members of the aristocracy and the landed gentry regularly shot daily bags of 500 to 1,000 pheasants.
Seat of the Windsor family, Barons Windsor and the
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