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I recently discovered a series of YouTube videos by Julie Montegu, an American who married into the family who owns Mapperton, a fabulous estate in Dorset not far from where I live. We’ve visited their gardens a few times. The movie “Far from the Madding Crowd” was filmed there a few years ago.
The estate has been in this family’s hands since the 1950s but the estate was built in the 16th century. The current owners, her in-laws, are the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, the family the “sandwich” was named for in the 1700s (also the Sandwich Islands). Julie and her husband Luke recently took over running Mapperton.
Her video series is about Mapperton and other grand estates in the UK. I am working my way through them.
Julie also has a YouTube series about buying a house in Italy. She recently purchased a small house in north western Tuscany for about €100,000, not a huge estate but a house in a small town.
View: https://youtu.be/dspZZSeGbps
The estate has been in this family’s hands since the 1950s but the estate was built in the 16th century. The current owners, her in-laws, are the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, the family the “sandwich” was named for in the 1700s (also the Sandwich Islands). Julie and her husband Luke recently took over running Mapperton.
Her video series is about Mapperton and other grand estates in the UK. I am working my way through them.
Julie also has a YouTube series about buying a house in Italy. She recently purchased a small house in north western Tuscany for about €100,000, not a huge estate but a house in a small town.
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