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Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette Thursday 11 Oct 1804
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BURTON-PYNSENT ESTATE,
SOMERSETSHIRE.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Meffrs. SKINNER, DYKE, and Co.
On Tuefday the 16 th of October, at twelve o'clock, at Garraway's Coffee-Houfs, 'Change-Alley, Cornhill, London, IN LOTS.
A Capital and truly Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, moft beautifully fituate at BURON-PYNSENT, in the parifhes of Curry-Rivell, Drayton, Fivehead, and Swill, bounded by Weft-Sedgmoor, and divided by the high road from Somerton to Taunton, 8 miles from the former, and within 10 of the latter, 8 of Ilminfter, and 12 of Chard, Crewkerne, and Bridgwater; comprifing the MANOR of DRAYTON, with the Royalties (extending over the whole parifh) and Appurtenances; BURTON-PYNSENT MANSION-HOUSE, Offices, Pleafure-Grounds, Lawns, Wildernefs, Plantations, Gardens, Paddocks, and Demefne Lands, and Woods; capital Farms, with Dwelling-Houfes, excellent Bartons, and Buildings for Hufbandry, Orcharding, and Tenements, containing about TWELVE HUNDRED ACRES of fertile Meadow Grazing, and Arable Land, forming one of the moft noble Eftates in the county; abundantly ftocked with capital oak, elm, and other timber trees, of very large dimenfions. The Farms are occupied by refpectable tenants, from year to year, and on fhort leafes, at rents amounting to about
One Thousand Four Hundred Pounds per Ann.
Alfo, The Moiety and Alternative Prefentation to the RECTORY of CURRY-RIVELL.
The whole of the Eftate is capable of the greateft improvement; and upon an inclofure of Weft-Sedgmoor, and other moors, containing feveral thousand acres, of which there are many valuable rights; the rental will be very confiderably increafed; and in point of fituation, no property is more eligible either for a refidence or farms.
To be viewed by applying to Rd. COOLING, at Burton-Pynfent Houfe; of whom printed particulars may be had thirty days preceeding the fale; alfo at the Red-Lion, Somerton; George Inns, Bridgwater, Chard, and Crewkerne; Caftle, Taunton; of Meffrs. GOADBY? And Co. Sherbourne; Mr. CRUTTWELL?, printer, Bath; Mr. RUDHALL, printer, Briftol; Mr. COLLINS, printer, Salifbury; Meffrs. FARRER and ATKINFON, folicitors, Lincoln's-Inn Fields; place of fale; and of Meffrs. SKINNER, DYKE, and Co. London, who are authorifed to treat by private contract?.