259:. The Duke's son-in-law, Viscount Chandos, was installed as sitting tenant in the house, which he eventually bought with only 10 acres of land when the rest of the estate was sold to the neighbouring Longford Castle estate in 1953. Lyttleton lived there until 1971, when banker Jeremy Pinckney bought the house for an estimated £75,000. A series of others bought and sold Trafalgar Park over the following years. Pinckney lived there for six years, after which he sold the estate to Tertius Murray Thriepland in 1978. In 1992 the house was sold to a Swedish hotelier Gunnar Bengtsson.
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went to great lengths to ensure that the estate was well maintained; he commissioned a new garden and renovation of
Standlynch Church. Enriched by marriage and inheritance, the successors of William Nelson expanded their land holdings to 7,196 acres by 1884. In 1930,
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Trafalgar Park which can be seen today. Sir Peter died in 1748, bequeathing the estate to his son George, who in 1752 sold it to Sir William Young.
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bought it from Young for £22,000 in 1765. Over time, the expansion of the estate erased the former settlement of
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