© Bryan Phillips Mar 2024

The Country Life archive is now available on British Newspaper Archives and Find my Past. A search for Milton Abbas reveals over 400 records and Milton Abbey 350.

The individual pages of the articles are available as pdf or jpg files. These results will be useful for anyone researching their house history as they will likely find their properties described for sale. Other highlights are the location, with photo, of the well in The Street, how the old doctor’s house was designed by Capability Brown to look without the massive hedge now hiding it, the view across the lake as designed without the trees as now obscuring it, when roe deer were introduced by the Hambros, a pheasant shoot in 1904 and many others. There are also of course major articles on the mansion house including Wyatt and Westmacott designs for furniture, and how the Tregonwells bought Anderson Manor.