Photos from walk on Thursday 10th March from the Fawley Monument to California Farm Cafe

Some went ahead

 

While some had to catch up

 

View back to Fawley

 

Approaching Brightwalton

 

Spray Wood, and the path from whence we came.

 

Pine seed in Brightwalton churchyard

 

We walked all round Woolley House, and presumably much of their estate, Woolley Park. The house has never been sold, but has been passed only by descent for 450 years.

 

There’s a website “handedon” which tries to record country houses which:

• have only ever been inherited or, if sold, then just the once, centuries ago
• are not generally open to the public (ideally not even the gardens, once a year)
  Bonus points for:
• never having featured in Country Life magazine
• having minimal-to-zero web presence.

 

so this, from 2017 starts by describing the annual ceremony held at the memorial where we parked, and goes on to describe the history of the Wroughton family.

 

 

‘No one who lives at Woolley would choose to be a lady. God made the place for Wroughton men, who throw a long leg over a horse and gallop about the downs – fox or no fox – from dawn to dusk.’

 

The war memorial commemorates one death. Here’s another:

 

One spring day in 1903 the Town Clerk of Wantage was taking some friends for a 4mph spin in his early automobile when he was in collision with a ‘motor-bicycle’ at a hazardous local junction. Looking beneath his vehicle the driver was horrified to recognise the stricken teenage form of fellow auto-enthusiast Christopher Wroughton of Woolley Park.

 

Sir Philip Wroughton was head of the family (84 in 2017) and died shortly after, leaving the house to his daughter Kirsten Loyd, who had been married to Tom Loyd, owner of the Lockinge estate, but she now has a Mr Rhydian Morgan-Jones as a partner. Kirsten’s daughter Camilla helps run the estate. See more about “The Team”

 

Here, almost written in a foreign language are the details of how Camilla and her sister Sophie have married Powell brothers (one of them of the whole blood; and how about being a scion of the ANSTRUTHER Bts of that Ilk)

 

From the Telegraph of 17 August 2019:

Mr O. Powell and Miss S. Loyd – The engagement is announced between Oliver, son of the late Sir Nicholas Powell and of Mrs Davina Powell, of Little Coxwell, Oxfordshire, and Sophie, daughter of Mr Thomas Loyd, of Lockinge, Oxfordshire, and Mrs Kirsten Loyd, of Woolley Park, Berkshire.

 

Oliver Michael Folliott (b 1990) s of Sir Nicholas Folliott Douglas POWELL 4th Bt (1935-2019) and his 2nd (and former) w Davina Hyacinthe Berners d of Michael Edward Ranulph ALLSOPP (1930-2017), scion of the HINDLIP and HATHERTON barons, and Patricia Ann BERNERS (1933-2017) scion of the ANSTRUTHER Bts of that Ilk (descended from the 4th Bt).

 

Sophie Rose (b c1990 reg Q1 Oxfordshire) d of Thomas C LOYD by his 1984 m (reg Q4 Berkshire) to Kirsten Mary (b 1959) eldest d of Sir Philip Lavallin WROUGHTON KCVO KStJ (b 1933), head of the gentry family of that name of Woolley Park, and Catriona Henrietta Ishbel (b 1934 reg London) d of Angus Malcolm MACLEOD (1908-54) of Skeabost, Isle of Skye by his 1933 m (reg Q4 London) to Jean J V CARR.

 

This is the second POWELL / LOYD engagement as Oliver’s older brother of the whole blood, Benjamin POWELL (b 1989) became engaged to Sophie’s elder sister Camilla Mary (b 1988) in December 2018:

 

Davina Loyd’s choice not to use the style ‘Lady’ is exactly that, a choice, as a divorced wife.

 

Enough.

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