Northumberland estate hits market with £35m price tag

One of the largest single blocks of land ever to be put up for sale has gone on the market with an asking price of £35m. The 9,500-acre Rothbury Estate in Northumberland, owned by Lord Max Percy, the youngest son of the Duke of Northumberland, has been in the Percy family for about 700 years. The estate has 12 farms, a caravan park with 10 plots and 23 residential properties. The land has been described by Knight Frank, which is marketing the estate, as the single largest ring-fenced carbon-offsetting opportunity to come to the open market in England for decades. Percy said he was selling the land to pursue a career and build a family in the south of England. The Times (£)