The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-02 00:00:00

LEICESTERSHIRE.

The Burton Hall Estate, 'a very important and extremely
valuable Freehold Property, in a fine sporting country,
tithe free, with its elegant Mansion, beautifully timbered
Park, the Manor of Burton-on-the-Wolds, several
eligible Farms, Agricultural Buildings, Water • Corn
Mill, Dwelling-houses, Cottages, Woods, Plantations,
&c., containing altogether upwards of 1,200 Acres of
superior Land.
MR. LEIFCHILD begs to announce that he
has received instructions to offer for unreserved
SALE, at-Garraway's on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of
June, at Twelve, in One Lot, the above important and
most desirable PROPERTY; comprising the capital
mansion and park called Burton Hall, situate in the centre
of the estate, with conservatories, shrubberies, and flower
gardens, occupying considerable space, and tastefully laid
out and planted with the choicest shrub's, hot-houses,
pineries, walled garde& stocked with the finest fruit trees
in high perfection, plantations and plea.iure groin:ids,
jiaficiously arranged, ornamented with grottos, fish ponds,
&c., and surrounded with peculiarly, fine: timber of Fall
ages and dimension% attached and detached "officeS of every
description, replete with comfort andrconvenience, and the
whole well adapted for the residence of a family of dis-
tinction. Also the Manor, or reputed Manor, of Burton-
on-the-Wolds, with all its rights, privileges, and immuni-
ties ; and an excellent and compact estate, comprising the
greater part of the parish of Burton, with parts of the
adjoining parishes of Walton and Wimeswould, conve-
niently divided into compact and well arranged farms,
occupied by respectable tenantry, substantial farm-houses,
and useful agricultural buildings of every description,
several well built cottages, water corn mill, &c., also
numerous woods, plantations, and extensive fox covert :
the whole containing upwards of 1,200 acres of excellent
arable, meadow, and pasture land, in a high state of culti-
vation. The situation is decidedly one of the best in the
county of Leicester; the local scenery is interesting, and
the view is bounded by the magnificent hills of Chem,' ood
Forest. The facilities of communication with all parts of
the kingdom are unusually good, being near the great
roads from London to Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, &c.,
and within a convenient distance of a good provincial town
-(Loughborough) ; it is also in the centre of a very genteel
neighbourhood, and within easy reach of the best coverts
belonging to the Quorn and all the other fox hunting esta.
131ishments of that celebrated coury, and the estate
abounds with game. The estate is tithe free, and the
parochial rates are very moderate. The situation in point
of markets and roads is excellent, being distant 12 miles
from the county town of Leicester, 3 from Loughborough,
11 from Melton Mowbray, 12 from Nottingham, and 18
from Derby. There are also very valuable beds of
alabaster and limestone under several parts of the estate,
which may be worked at a moderate expense.
All futther information may be obtained, and printed
particulars, with a lithographic plan of the estate, may be
procured, on or after the 3d of May, by application to
Messrs. Berridge, Berridge, and Macaulay, solicitors,
Leicester ; Mr. Francis Smedley, solicitor, 12, Ely-place,
Holborn, London ; • Mr. T. S. Woolley, land agent,
South Collingham, near Newark ; Messrs. Parsons and
Gill, surveyors, Leicester ; and at Mr. Leifchild's land
and timber offices, 45, -Lothbury, London, and Enfield,
Middlesex ; from any of whom permission may be obtained
to view the estate. • .