[Diggers350] Norfolk villagers claim Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, has stolen over 3, 000 acres of public common land

Sun Jan 7 14:15:31 GMT 2024

Norfolk villagers claim Thomas Coke, Earl of 
Leicester, has stolen over 3,000 acres of public common land

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Locals uprising against the Lord of the Manor: 
Stately home Holkham Hall at centre of bitter row 
after Norfolk villagers claim its owner the Earl 
of Leicester unfairly took over 3,000 acres of public land

Emacs!

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Holkham Hall, which covers 25,000 acres, is owned 
by Thomas Coke, the Earl of Leicester

One of the most prestigious stately homes in the 
country is at the centre of a bitter legal row 
over the ownership of part of its vast 25,000 acre estate.

Holkham Hall, valued at more than £200 million, 
is on the north Norfolk coast and owned by the 
Earl of Leicester and the huge farming estate is run by Jake Fiennes.

Emacs!

But the picturesque marshes of Burnham Overy 
Staithe, near Brancaster, are at the centre of an 
extraordinarily fierce row in which villagers are 
challenging the power and influence of the local Lord of the Manor.

Locals claim that more than 3,000 acres of land 
is legally common land. They say the Earl of 
Leicester, of nearby Holkham Hall, has unfairly 
claimed the part of the area as his own and that 
the land is being wrongly treated as private property.

Sailors and boat users are charged for moorings 
and launchings on the popular waterways and the 
fees are claimed by the Burnham Overy Harbour 
Trust which leases the land from the Holkham estate.

The eighth Earl of Leicester, Thomas Coke  an 
elected hereditary peer in the House of Lords, 
who was the Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II 
 insists the land is lawfully part of his estate.

In recent weeks, the dispute has been played out 
at Norwich Magistrates Court but the battle 
ended in defeat for the villagers, after a 
tribunal panel ruled against them. But they have vowed to continue their fight.

With average house prices of £1 million, the 
stretch of fashionable coast around Holkham has 
been dubbed Chelsea-on-Sea because of the growing 
number of Londoners buying up second homes or holiday lets.

The Scolt Head and District Common Rights 
Holders Association was set up forty years ago 
and has always argued that the land belongs to 
Burnham Overy Parish Council under historic 
Enclosure Acts that date back to the 18th century.

But the villagers say the Earl unlawfully 
registered the land to the Holkham estate in 2012 
and has leased it to the Burnham Overy Harbour 
Trust which is wrongly charging people for 
moorings and license fees to launch boats.

Rod Cooke, secretary of the Scolt Head and 
District Common Rights Holders Association, 
accused the Holkham estate and Trust of usurping 
from property that doesnt belong to them.

Common land has been taken from us and is being 
used as private property and there is not 
supposed to be any commercialisation of common 
land and they shouldnt be profiting from it.

What theyve done is unlawful and theres no way 
common rights holders can get justice.

Were perfectly happy to manage the common with 
everyone, but the Earl of Leicester, who calls 
himself the landowner, and the Trust wont talk 
to us- they dont believe we have any role in the 
management of the land we own.

But Holkham estate says it successfully 
registered ownership of an island in Burnham 
Overy harbour, traditionally called the 77 Acres, 
with HM Land Registry between 2009 and 2015.

It denies any ownership of the Scolt Head Island 
nature reserve, which it says lies with the 
National Trust and with Natural England.

Peter Mitchell, managing director of the estate, 
said: Ownership of the this land was challenged 
some four or five years after it was registered.

Holkham looked back into the estate records and 
agreed at the time the possibility that the 
ownership of the 77 Acres may not have been 
legitimately held by the previous owner, who sold 
a large block of land around the Burnhams to the Holkham estate in 1922.

If that counter argument were shown to be true, 
ownership would most likely have tracked from its 
status as unenclosed land into ownership by the 
parish council or the district council.

The estate says that it has worked closely with 
the parish council over the last few years and 
that the authority came to the conclusion that 
they neither needed to, nor wanted to, take on ownership.

The Holkham estate therefore decided at that 
time that it should not transfer ownership to the 
parish council, but instead continue to take 
responsibility to manage this important area of natural habitat.

The Scolt Head and District Common Rights Holders 
Association reported the Burnham Overy Harbour 
Trust to the Charity Commission thirty years ago 
but in 2019 the Commission said it was not going 
to take any action over the complaints. He said 
both had been unlawfully contravened by the Commission and Trust.

Mr Cooke submitted a Freedom of Information 
request to the Commission asking for 
correspondence between the regulator and the Trust.

However, it withheld some information, arguing 
that if it was to disclose correspondence from 
trustees public confidence in charities could be 
lost through fear of consequences.

Mr Cooke appealed, but it was this case that was 
dismissed at a tribunal at Norwich Magistrates Court in recent weeks.

We could take the Trust to court for trespassing 
on common land, but when youre dealing with 
organisations with thousands of pounds we simply 
cant take them on because we dont have that sort of funding, Mr Cooke said.

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