land agent

ARBURY Estate's resident land agent James Perks has been made an associate by chartered surveyors Smiths Gore.

SURVEY the runners for the Racing Post Trophy at Kempton today and you can see why The Land Agent has a real chance of earning his commission.

IT'S very much a family affair for the Samples, as Ed Sample, who is the sixth generation of his family to be a land agent in Northumberland, joins Bywell-based Land Factor.

Meanwhile Dawn Harding, a chartered surveyor and land agent based at Bangor on Dee, is the new Rural Practice Surveyor for the Country Land and Business Association in North Wales Ms Harding, who previously worked at Carter Jonas and Jones Peckover, said she was looking forward to steering farmers and land managers through the challenges of CAP reform.

The estate also employs three housing maintenance staff, two full-time and two part-time forestry workers, two gamekeepers, a shared land agent, and two part-time secretaries.

The letter, written to the Duke of Montrose's land agent in 1724, is unusual in that it is signed by Rob Roy in his own name, rather than under the name of Campbell.

But land agent James said he was just a friend of winning trainer Steve Brookshaw, whose horses ride past his cottage in Shrewsbury.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a land agent who spent half-a-century in the service of rural North Wales.

Land agent George Hiller also traces the ups and downs of the estate over the past 600 years in his book, launched tomorrow, called Your Obedient Servant: The History of an Historic Welsh Estate.

The meeting was chaired by George Thompson, county land agent of Hereford Council.